Another look at the locus of control–organizational commitment relationship: it depends on the form of commitment
✍ Scribed by Daniel F. Coleman; Gregory P. Irving; Christine L. Cooper
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 90 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Previous studies imply that individuals with an external locus of control (LOC) are less likely to be committed to their organizations. More recent work on organizational commitment has suggested that commitment is not a unidimensional construct and can take several forms (e.g., aective and continuance). Using a sample of 232 employees of a Canadian governmental agency, we examined the relations between LOC and two dierent forms of organizational commitment that have been found to have dierent antecedents and consequences. We found that internal LOC was associated with aective commitment and external LOC was associated with continuance commitment. Implications for research and practice are discussed.