The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of affective, continuance, and normative commitment to the organization. For this study, data were collected from 368 local public officials from 3 Gu Offices in Incheon. Self-administered ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of affective, continuance, and normative commitment to the organization. For this study, data were collected from 368 local public officials from 3 Gu Offices in Incheon. Self-administered questionnaires were used as measuring instruments and data were analyzed using a hierarchical regression technique. This study found that task reward(task variety, task challenge, and task autonomy), organizational reward(job security and distributive justice) and social reward(supervisory support and coworker support) variables played an important role in the development of affective commitment; economic costs(self-investment, organization-specific training and job opportunities) had significant effects on continuance commitment, and; obligation-related variables(commitment norm and receipt of benefits) and intrinsic reward variables(task variety and task challenge) were key determinants of normative commitment. The theoretical implications of this findings were discussed and suggestions for future research were advanced.