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HumanResourceManagementReview23(2013)190–202

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A-centeredapproachtothestudyofcommitment

JohnP.Meyera,⁎,LauraJ.Stanleyb,RobertJ.Vandenbergc

aDepartmentofPsychology,TheUniversityofWesternOntario,Canada

bDepartmentofManagement,CollegeofBusiness,EastCarolinaUniversity,UnitedStates

cTerryCollegeofBusiness,DepartmentofManagement,UniversityofGeorgia,UnitedStates

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Keywords:Theoriesofworkcecommitmenthavebecomereasinglycomplexwithpropositionsregarding

Commitmentmindsetsitsmultiplecomponentstructure(e.g.,affective,normative,continuance)andmultiplefoci

Commitmentfoci(e.g.,organization,supervisor,team).Todate,mostresearchhastakenavariablecentered

Commitmentprofilesapproach(e.g.,regression,SEM)toaddresstheadditiveandinctiveeffectsofcommitment

-centeredresearch

componentsandfocionbehaviorandwellbeing.Thisassumesthatresearchsamplesare

homogeneousandthatthesametheoreticalframeworkandempiricalfindingsapplyuniformlyto

employeesingeneral.Morerecently,ithasbeenproposedthatasamplecancontainsubgroups