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THE EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: A CRITICAL AND COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Author(s): RANI JAISWAL & DR P.S. RAYCHAUDHURI & BUSHRA AKHTAR

Abstract

Many types of research have been piloted on the concept of organizational commitment. This paper tries to review established exploration of the existing literature related to the development of the concept of Organizational commitment critically. It has considered the literature related to the approaches of Organizational Commitment, advanced in past decades and has provided an overview of different methods. Every approach has been an extension and modification over the preceding ones. Precisely, this paper will be built on the following theories of organizational literature, from within the commitment and has highlighted the theories regarding organizational commitment chronologically and the gaps those are identified in the proposed theories have been reviewed critically. It argued some of the ideas and thinking, developed so far, to provide the platform to conceptualize and measure the concept of organizational commitment. By considering the importance of social exchange theory in today's world in enhancing the commitment level of the employee towards its organization, we have proposed a model that displays the specific relationship between social exchange variables and their assumed outcomes which is yet to be empirically tested.

Keywords: employee commitment, attitudinal approach, organizational commitment, reciprocal relationship, social exchange theory

JEL Classification: M50, M51, M59

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