Examination of the combined effects of work values and early work experiences on organizational commitment

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-52

  Meyer, John P ^a   Irving, P Gregory ^b   Allen, Natalie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039758298     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(199801)19:1<29::AID-JOB818>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Allen, N. J. and Meyer, J. P. (1990). 'The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment', Journal of Occupational Psychology, 63, 1-18.
2. Allen, N. J. and Meyer, J. P. (1996). 'Affective, continuance, and normative commitment to the organization: An examination of construct validity', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 49, 252-276.
3. Blau, G. J. (1987). 'Using a person-environment fit model to predict job involvement and organizational commitment', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 30, 240-257.
4. Brenner, O. C. and Tomkiewicz, J. (1979). 'Job orientation of males and females: Are sex differences declining?' Personnel Psychology, 32, 741-750.
5. Brenner, O. C. and Tomkiewicz, J. (1982). 'Job orientation of black and white college graduates', Personnel Psychology, 35, 89-103.
6. Brooke, P. P., Russel, D. W. and Price, J. L. (1988). 'Discriminant validation of measures of job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment', Journal of Applied Psychology, 73, 139-145.
7. Chatman, J. (1989). 'Improving interactional organizational research: A model of person-organization fit', Academy of Management Review, 14, 333-349.
8. Cohen, A. (1992). 'Antecedents of organizational commitment across occupational groups: A meta-analysis', Journal of Organizational Behavior, 13, 539-558.
9. Cortina, J. M. (1993). Interaction, non-linearity, and multicollinearity: Implications for multiple regresion', Journal of Management, 19, 915-922.
10. Dawis, R. V. (1992). 'Person-environment fit and job satisfaction'. In: Cranny, C. J., Smith, P. C. and Stone, E. F. (Eds) Job Satisfaction: How People Feel About Their Jobs and How it Affects Their Performance, Lexington Books, New York, pp. 69-88.
11. Dawis, R. V. and Lofquist, L. H. (1984). A Psychological Theory of Work Adjustment, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
12. Dunham, R. B., and Grube, J. A. and Castaneda, M. B. (1994). 'Organizational commitment: The utility of an integrative definition', Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 370-380.
13. Edwards, J. R. (1991). 'Person-job fit: A conceptual integration, literature review, and methodological critique', International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 6, 283-357.
14. Edwards, J. R. (1993). 'Problems with the use of profile similarity indices in the study of congruence in organizational research', Personnel Psychology, 46, 641-665.
15. Edwards, J. R. (1994). 'The study of congruence in organizational behavior research: Critique and a proposed alternative', Journal of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 58, 51-100.
16. Edwards, J. R. and Cooper, C. L. (1990). 'The person-environment fit approach to stress: Recurring problems and some suggested solutions', Journal of Organizational Behavior, 11, 293-307.
17. Edwards, J. R. and Parry, M. E. (1993). 'On the use of polynomial regression equations as an alternative to difference scores in organizational research', Academy of Management Review, 36, 1577-1613.
18. Gellatly I. R. (1995). 'Individual and group determinants of employee absenteeism: Test of a causal model', Journal of Organizational Behavior, 16, 469-485.
19. Hesketh, B. and Gardner, D. (1993). 'Person-environment fit models: A reconceptualization and empirical test', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 42, 315-332.
20. Irving, P. G. and Meyer, J. P. (1994). 'Reexamination of the met-expectations hypothesis: A longitudinal analysis', Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 937-949.
21. Jaros, S. T., Jermier, J. M., Koehler, J. W. and Sincich, T. (1993). 'Effects of continuance, affective, and moral commitment on the withdrawal process: An evaluation of eight structural equation models', Academy of Management Journal, 36, 951-995.
22. Konovsky, M. A. and Cropanzano, R. (1991). 'Perceived fairness of employee drug testing as a predictor of employee attitudes and job performance', Journal of Applied Psychology, 76, 698-707.
23. Lee, T. W., Ashford, S. J., Walsh, J. P. and Mowday, R. T. (1992). 'Commitment propensity, organizational commitment, and voluntary turnover: A longitudinal study of organizational entry processes', Journal of Applied Psychology, 18, 15-32.
24. Locke, E. A. (1976). The nature and causes of job satisfaction'. In: Dunnette, M. (Ed.) Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Rand McNally, Chicago, pp. 1297-1349.
25. Lubinski, D. and Humphreys, L. G. (1990). 'Assessing spurious "moderator effects" illustrated substantively with the hypothesized ("synergistic") relations between spatial and mathematical ability', Psychological Bulletin, 107, 385-393.
26. Manhardt, P. J. (1972). 'Job orientation of male and female college graduates in business', Personnel Psychology, 25, 361-368.
27. Mathieu, J. E. and Farr, J. L. (1991). 'Further evidence for the discriminant validity of measures of organizational commitment, job involvement, and job satisfaction', Journal of Applied Psychology, 76, 127-133.
28. Mathieu, J. E. and Zajac, D. (1990). 'A review and meta-analysis of the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of organizational commitment', Psychological Bulletin, 108, 171-194.
29. Mayer, R. C. and Schoorman, F. D. (1992). 'Predicting participation and production outcomes through a two-dimensional model of organizational commitment', Academy of Management Journal, 35, 671-684.
30. McGee, G. W. and Ford, R. C. (1987). 'Two (or more?) dimensions of organizational commitment: Reexamination of the Affective and Continuance Commitment Scales', Journal of Applied Psychology, 72, 638-642.
31. Meglino, B. M., Ravlin, E. C. and Adkins, C. L. (1989). 'A work values approach to corporate culture: A field test of the value congruence process and its relationship to individual outcomes', Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 424-432.
32. Meyer, J. P. and Allen, N. J. (1984). 'Testing the "side-bet theory" of organizational commitment: Some methodological considerations', Journal of Applied Psychology, 69, 372-378.
33. Meyer, J. P. and Allen, N. J. (1991). 'A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment, Human Resource Management Review, 1, 61-89.
34. Meyer, J. P. and Allen, N. J. (1995, May). 'Work characteristic and work attitude relations: Moderating effect of attributions. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, FL.
35. Meyer, J. P., Allen, N. J. and Gellatly, I. R. (1990). 'Affective and continuance commitment to the organization: Evaluation of measures and analysis of concurrent and time-lagged relations', Journal of Applied Psychology, 75, 710-720.
36. Meyer, J. P., Allen, N. J. and Smith, C. A. (1993). 'Commitment to organizations and occupations: Extension and test of a three-component conceptualization', Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 538-551.
37. Meyer, J. P., Bobocel, D. R. and Allen, N. J. (1991). 'Development of organizational commitment during the first year of employment': A longitudinal study of pre-and post-entry influences', Journal of Management, 17, 717-733.
38. Meyer, J. P., Paunonen, S. V., Gellatly, I. R., Goffin, R. D. and Jackson, D. N. (1989). 'Organizational commitment and job performance: It's the nature of the commitment that counts', Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 152-156.
39. Mowday, R. T., Porter, L. W. and Steers, R. M. (1982). Employee-Organization, Linkages: The Psychology of Commitment, Absenteeism, and Turnover, Academic Press, New York.
40. Mowday, R. T., Steers, R. M. and Porter, L. W. (1979). The measurement of organizational commitment', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 14, 224-247.
41. O'Brien, G. E. and Dowling, P. (1980). 'The effects of congruency between perceived and desired job attributes upon job satisfaction', Journal of Occupational Psychology, 53, 121-130.
42. Oliver, N. (1990). 'Work rewards, work values, and organizational commitment in an employee-owned firm: Evidence from the U.K.', Human Relations, 43, 513-526.
43. O'Reilly, C. A., III and Chatman, J. (1986). 'Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: The effects of compliance, identification, and internalization on prosocial behavior', Journal of Applied Psychology, 71, 492-499.
44. O'Reilly, C. A., III, Chatman, J. and Caldwell, D. F. (1991). 'People and organizational culture: A profile comparison approach to assessing person-organization fit', Academy of Management Journal, 34, 487-516.
45. Pierce, J. L. and Dunham, R. B. (1987). 'Organizational commitment: Pre-employment propensity and initial work experiences', Journal of Management, 13, 163-178.
46. Rice, R. W., McFarlin, D. B. and Bennett, D. W. (1989). 'Standards of comparison and job satisfaction' Journal of Applied Psychology, 74, 591-598.
47. Shore, L. M. and Wayne, S. J. (1993). 'Commitment and employee behavior: Comparison of affective and continuance commitment with perceived organizational support', Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 774-780.
48. Tett, R. P. and Meyer, J. P. (1993). 'Job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intention and turnover: Path analyses based on meta-analytic findings', Personnel Psychology, 46, 259-293.
49. Vancouver, J. B. and Schmitt, N. W. (1991). 'An exploratory examination of person-organization fit: Organizational goal congruence', Personnel Psychology, 44, 333-352.