Organizational attachment: A multi-disciplinary comparison of operationalizations

• In Event: Innovative Investigations of Identification and Commitment

Abstract

Perspectives on workplace attachment vary considerably across disciplines, with resulting inconsistencies in conceptualizations and operationalizations. This study integrates communication, psychology and management research traditions and instruments, comparing participant responses to scales for affective, continuance and normative commitment and organizational identification, along with job satisfaction and satisfaction with information received. Results confirm the interrelationships among constructs and support a call for integrated multi-disciplinary refinement of workplace attachment constructs.

Authors

• Tracy C. Russo, University of Kansas

• Stephenson J. Beck, University of Kansas

• Mary E Asbury, University of Kansas

• Samantha Faimon

• Leilani Carver, University of Kansas