Employees' Nonwork Obligations and Organizational Commitments: A New Way to Look at the Relationships
✍ Scribed by Steven Mellor; John E. Mathieu; Janet L. Barnes-Farrell; Steven G. Rogelberg
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
- DOI
- 10.1002/hrm.1006
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The authors1 adopted a family resource view of nonwork obligations and examined these obligations' relationships to dimensions of employees' organizational commitment. Complex interactions were found between employees' marital status, number of children, and having relatives nearby as related to the continuance dimension, but not the affective dimension, of commitment. In particular, results were strongest when the focus was on employees' perceptions of whether they would experience a high personal sacrifice if they were to leave their organizations. These findings are discussed in the context of developing family‐friendly human resource programs that may help employees feel less “trapped” in organizations. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.