MENEZES, Igor Gomes; AGUIAR, Carolina Villa Nova    BASTOS, Antonio Virgilio Bittencourt. Organizational commitment: some issues surrounding its nature and conceptual bounds. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2016, 22, 3, pp.768-789. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2016V22N3P768.

Organizational commitment, although one of the most investigated phenomena in the field of organizational behavior, may still be considered as a multifaceted and polysemous construct. This work aims to present the complexity and dispersion that revolves around the concept of organizational commitment into three central problems: 1) large number of theoretical interfaces between organizational commitment and other organizational-related constructs, 2) the preponderance of studies that investigate commitment as an attitude rather than researches that emphasize behavioral indicators, and 3) the construct dimensionality, and the lack of a consensus about how many and which bases constitutes organizational commitment. In addition to discuss these main issues on the topic, this work suggests some theoretical and empirical research ways that could minimize some problems surrounding the mainstream organizational commitment literature, based on conceptual questions that revolve around this central construct

: Organizational commitment; Commitment polysemy; Commitment dimensionality; Theoretical approaches.

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