Organizational and client commitment among contracted employees: A replication and extension with temporary workers

This study replicates and extends Coyle-Shapiro and Morrow’s study (Coyle-Shapiro, J.A.-M., & Morrow, P.C. 2006. Organizational and client commitment among contracted employees. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 28, 416–431) of organizational and client commitment among contracted employees. Our s...

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Published inJournal of vocational behavior Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 326 - 335
Main Authors Connelly, Catherine E., Gallagher, Daniel G., Gilley, K. Matthew
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Philadelphia Elsevier Inc 01.04.2007
Elsevier
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Affective organizational commitment
Behavioral Science Research
Commitments
Contingent workers
Continuance organizational commitment
Contracted employees
Employee Attitudes
Employees
Employer Employee Relationship
Organizational behavior
Organizational Climate
Organizational commitment
Organizational Development
Perceived organizational support
Program Validation
School employees
Studies
Temporary Employment
Temporary workers
Tenure
Organizational commitment
Perceived organizational support
Contracted employees
Contingent workers
Continuance organizational commitment
Affective organizational commitment
Temporary workers
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Summary:This study replicates and extends Coyle-Shapiro and Morrow’s study (Coyle-Shapiro, J.A.-M., & Morrow, P.C. 2006. Organizational and client commitment among contracted employees. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 28, 416–431) of organizational and client commitment among contracted employees. Our study focuses on temporary workers rather than long-term contracted employees, and also finds that perceived organizational support (POS) from a client organization indeed relates to affective organizational commitment towards the client. However, this study further suggests that client POS also relates to continuance commitment towards the client as well as affective and continuance commitment towards the temporary agency. Finally, temporary workers’ desire to pursue temporary work relates to affective commitment towards the temporary agency, but continuance commitment to the temporary agency is related to a preference for permanent employment.
ISSN:0001-8791
1095-9084
DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2006.10.003