Friday 24 July 11:25
- 12:55
Hall: 03 - Volta
Chair:
Vandenberghe Christian
Division: Division 1: Work and Organizational Psychology
This symposium highlights recent advances in employee commitment research, integrating methodological innovations, cross-cultural insights, and multilevel analyses. Commitment remains central to organizational psychology due to its links with retention, performance, and well-being. Yet contemporary workplaces—with diverse teams, global operations, and evolving professional roles—require updated approaches to conceptualizing, measuring, and examining employee commitment. The presentations collectively explore novel antecedents, mechanisms, and outcomes of employee commitment at individual, professional, team, and cultural levels. The symposium is timely and highly relevant for ICAP because employee commitment continues to shape critical organizational outcomes, yet traditional approaches often overlook cultural, temporal, and team-level complexities.
Presentations:
• Meyer, Stanley, and Espinoza present an AI-assisted comprehensive meta-analysis of the organizational commitment literature. Their work demonstrates how artificial intelligence can efficiently screen, extract, and categorize data from decades of primary studies, enabling large-scale integration of findings across cultures, constructs, and outcomes.
• Wasti offers a cross-cultural perspective on commitment, synthesizing emerging cultural constructs from recent cross-cultural research—including the dimensions of selfhood, responsibilism, tightness-looseness, and relational mobility—that go beyond traditional taxonomies developed by Hofstede, Schwartz, or the GLOBE project. This work provides the basis for a more nuanced understanding of how cultural contexts shape the formation, expression, and impact of employee commitment.
• Lapointe and Nikolova focus on commitment to the profession, an under-researched form of commitment. Using longitudinal data, they reveal dynamic, reciprocal relationships between occupational future time perspective, goal-supportive supervision, and professional commitment, highlighting how individuals' perceptions of career opportunities and support influence their professional dedication.
• Montani and Vandenberghe investigate team-level social dominance orientation, demonstrating how collective dominance tendencies undermine team goal commitment and, in turn, reduce innovation in ethnically diverse teams. This study highlights team goal commitment as a critical mechanism that may link team-level characteristics to performance outcomes in the context of diversity.
