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ERIC Number: EJ961310
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Apr
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0001-8791
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Affective, Normative, and Continuance Commitment Levels across Cultures: A Meta-Analysis
Meyer, John P.; Stanley, David J.; Jackson, Timothy A.; McInnis, Kate J.; Maltin, Elyse R.; Sheppard, Leah
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v80 n2 p225-245 Apr 2012
With increasing globalization of business and diversity within the workplace, there has been growing interest in cultural differences in employee commitment. We used meta-analysis to compute mean levels of affective (AC; K=966, N=433,129), continuance (CC; K=428, N=199,831), and normative (NC; K=336, N=133,277) organizational commitment for as many as 54 countries and nine geographic regions, and used cultural values/practices from the Hofstede (2001), Schwartz (2006), and GLOBE (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004) taxonomies to account for observed variance. We found that cultural values/practices explained the greatest amount of variance in NC, followed by AC; they did not explain variance in CC. When economic indicators were controlled, Schwartz's value orientations accounted for the most incremental variance, particularly in NC. We provide country-level normative data for the three components of commitment and discuss the implications of our findings for multi-national organizations as well as for companies employing individuals with varying cultural backgrounds. (Contains 10 figures and 4 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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