Work Values and Organizational Commitment: A Study in the Asian Context

Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate the association between work values and organizational commitment in the Asian context. Two major dimensions of work values, that is, intrinsic and extrinsic, were derived from a factor analysis of Wollack et al.'s scale. Organizational commitment was defined in terms of an individual's degree of identification and involvement in the work organization. This variable was measured using Porter et al.'s scale. The analysis suggested that intrinsic work values relate more closely to organizational commitment than either the global measure of work values or extrinsic work values.

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“…Elizur and Koslowsky (2001), for example, found that work values, especially cognitive ones, are positively associated with organisational commitment. Similar findings were shown in Asia when Putti et al (1989) …”

“…While general values may refer to any principles, work values specifically focus on principles held in the workplace, for example the importance of money or of working with people. Work values differ enormously among employees and are strong antecedents of organisational commitment (Elizur and Koslowsky, 2001;Putti et al, 1989) and job satisfaction (Cheung and Scherling, 1999;Knoop, 1994).…”

“…Although it is limited, there is some empirical evidence linking work values and organisational commitment (Elizur and Koslowsky, 2001;Putti et al, 1989). Elizur and Koslowsky (2001), for example, found that work values, especially cognitive ones, are positively associated with organisational commitment.…”

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“…Furthermore, work attachment also positively correlated with organizational commitment (Ho, Oldenburg, Day, & Sun, 2012;Dabare & Sajeevanie, 2014;Geldenhuys, Łaba, &Venter, 2014). There are many literatures indicate there was a positive correlation between work value and organizational commitment (Putti, Aryee, & Liang, 2014;Shas, Kaur, & Haque, 1992;Maiyanto & Santhoso, 1999).…”

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“…These shortcomings make it difficult to evaluate his results. Putti, Aryee and Liang (1989) factor analyzed the OCQ using varimax rotation with Kaiser normalization and found a two factor solution accounting for 46.3% and 9.3% of the variance, respectively. There was no clear pattern to the items loading on the second factor.…”