The relationship between organizational and professional commitment in the case of project workers : implications for project management
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01/09/2010
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The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between organizational and professional commitment of project workers. We first present (1) role-conflict theory and exchange theory to establish the multiple dimensions of commitment (affective, continuance, and normative) and (2) social identity theory to support our argument for different foci of commitment—organization and profession. Building on these theoretical lenses, we present the literature review that compares organizational and professional commitment of project workers with respect to the three dimensions of commitment. Adopting a positivist approach and a sample of 141 project workers, we use Pearson’s correlation to identify the relationship between affective organizational and affective professional, continuance organizational and continuance professional, and normative organizational and normative professional commitment. We report significant correlation between affective organizational commitment and affective professional commitment of project workers. The correlations between continuance organizational commitment and continuance professional commitment and normative organizational commitment and normative professional commitment are moderate. We then discuss the implications of these findings for the project management profession. |
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John Wiley & Sons |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/49463/1/49463.pdf DOI:10.1002/pmj.20196 Bredillet, Christophe & Dwivedula, Ravikiran (2010) The relationship between organizational and professional commitment in the case of project workers : implications for project management. Project Management Journal, 41(4), pp. 79-88. |
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Copyright 2010 John Wiley & Sons The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com |
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School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment; Science & Engineering Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified #organizational commitment #professional commitment #role-conflict theory #exchange theory #social identity theory |
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Journal Article |