ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT - ONE OF MANY COMMITMENTS OR KEY MEDIATING CONSTRUCT

This study developed and tested two rival views of how organizational commitment can be reconceptualized to accommodate both global organiza tional commitment and constituency-specific commitments. In the first view, organizational commitment is just one of many independent commit ments; in the second, it is a key mediating construct. Results of stru ctural equations modeling used to test the two competing views indicat e that the key mediating construct model best represents the relations hips between constituency-specific commitments, global organizational commitment, and important organizational outcomes.