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Organizational commitment and performance among guest workers and citizens of an Arab country

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posted on 2024-06-13, 11:05 authored by JD Shaw, JE Delery, MHA Abdulla
The relationships among affective organizational commitment, guest workers status, and two dimensions of individual performance (overall and helping) were explored in a unique international setting. Employees and supervisors (N =226) at two commercial banks in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) participated in the study. With a dissonance perspective as a backdrop, it was predicted that U.A.E. nationals, with substantial economic security and choice, would maintain more attitude-behavior consistency than guest workers, employed under highly restrictive work visas. Organizational commitment-guest worker status interactions were significant predictors of overall performance and helping, and partially supported the dissonance perspective. Implications are discussed and future research directions identified.

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Journal

Journal of business research

Volume

56

Pagination

1021-1030

Location

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

ISSN

0148-2963

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2003, Elsevier Science Inc

Issue

12

Publisher

Elsevier

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