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    Intra-national variation in organizational commitment: evidence from the Chinese context

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    Authors
    Gamble, J.
    Tian, Amy
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Gamble, J. and Tian, A. 2015. Intra-national variation in organizational commitment: evidence from the Chinese context. International Journal of Human Resource Management. 26 (7): pp. 948-970.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Human Resource Management
    DOI
    10.1080/09585192.2012.722122
    ISSN
    0958-5192
    School
    School of Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36648
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    This study demonstrates how organizational commitment can differ at the sub-national level. We develop and test hypotheses based on levels of economic development and related shifts from collectivism to individualism. The data comprise 1017 retail employees drawn from two economically distinctly different parts of China. We find that organizational commitment is higher in ‘less economically developed’ regions. Affective and normative commitment (NC) negatively predicted turnover intentions, whereas continuance commitment related positively to turnover intentions. Unlike earlier findings using Western samples, this study finds the effect of NC on turnover intentions considerably stronger, suggesting that NC is more predictive of turnover intentions. As expected, our results indicate that continuance commitment is more predictive of turnover intentions in the ‘more economically developed’ regions.

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