ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: DESCRIBING THE COMMMITMENT AND NON-COMMITMENT WITH ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

In this study, the characterization of organizational commitment standards, established in an earlier work, which has validated the conceptualization model of three components of organizational commitment established by Meyer and Allen (1991) was performed. The research was based on 373 interviews carried out among employees and their supervisors in 201 companies in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The personal characteristics and their dimensions which differentiate the established commitment standards were identified. In order to identify the dimensions of the personal characteristics, it was applied the factorial analysis and to identify the personal characteristics and its dimensions, which differentiate the organizational commitment standards, it was used the ANÁLISE DE VARIANCIA. As a result, we presented the personal characteristics of commitments and of non-commitments with organizations. In this study, the BI-DIMENSIONALIDADE of the control locus, as it was conceptualized by Spector (1988) was also confirmed.