CAREER COMMITMENT, COMPETENCES, AND CITIZENSHIP

Carson and Bedeian's (1994) Career Commitment Measure was used to exam ine the relationships of career commitment with emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior, which were then examined for relationships with organizational commitment. As predicted, emotional intelligence was positively related to career commitment, but not rel ated to organizational commitment. Both types of commitments were posi tively related to organizational citizenship behavior and its underlyi ng factor of civic virtue. However, career commitment was related to t he sportsmanship and altruism factors, whereas organizational commitme nt was related to the involvement factor of organizational citizenship behavior. Further insight into these relationships was gained by expl oring the three dimensions of the Career Commitment Measure. A respeci fied model examining emotional intelligence as an antecedent to career commitment with organizational commitment and organizational citizens hip behavior factors as outcomes displayed a good fit to the data.