Employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets: A longitudinal person-centered investigation

IF 5.2 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED

Journal of Vocational Behavior Pub Date : 2024-12-15 DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2024.104080

Alexandre J.S. Morin, Christian Vandenberghe, Joon Lee, Nicolas Gillet

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This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate the structure, stability, antecedents, and outcomes of employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets. Following Perreira et al.'s (2018) hierarchical representation of commitment, profiles of affective commitment were estimated by considering both global levels of commitment to the work life and specific levels of commitment to organization, supervisor, coworkers, occupation, work, and career. To this end, a sample of 468 individuals working in firefighting stations located in France was surveyed twice over a four-month period. Our results revealed six commitment profiles: (1) Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Organizational Orientation, (2) Globally Weakly Committed with a Balanced Orientation, (3) Globally Strongly Committed with an Occupational Orientation, (4) Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Supervisor Orientation, (5) Globally Strongly Committed with a Career Orientation, and (6) Globally Strongly Committed with a Social Orientation. Over time, these profiles displayed a high level of within-sample and within-person stability. Global levels of authentic leadership were related to a higher likelihood of membership into profiles displaying higher global levels of commitment (especially those with a social or occupational orientation) than into the other profiles. Levels of perceived health, work efficiency, improvement-oriented behaviors, and job satisfaction also differed across profiles, with some of the worst outcomes found in the Globally Moderately Committed with a Hierarchical-Organizational Orientation profile.

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Journal of Vocational Behavior PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Vocational Behavior publishes original empirical and theoretical articles offering unique insights into the realms of career choice, career development, and work adjustment across the lifespan. These contributions are not only valuable for academic exploration but also find applications in counseling and career development programs across diverse sectors such as colleges, universities, business, industry, government, and the military. The primary focus of the journal centers on individual decision-making regarding work and careers, prioritizing investigations into personal career choices rather than organizational or employer-level variables. Example topics encompass a broad range, from initial career choices (e.g., choice of major, initial work or organization selection, organizational attraction) to the development of a career, work transitions, work-family management, and attitudes within the workplace (such as work commitment, multiple role management, and turnover).