Employer policies and organizational commitment in Britain 1992-97

Gallie, Duncan, Felstead, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8851-4289 and Green, Francis 2001. Employer policies and organizational commitment in Britain 1992-97. Journal of Management Studies 38 (8) , pp. 1081-1101. 10.1111/1467-6486.00273

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Abstract

An important current of thinking in the last decade has emphasized the need for a shift from control to commitment as the central objective of management employment policies. This paper is concerned to assess whether there was a significant increase in British employees’ commitment to their organizations in the 1990s, using comparative data from two large-scale and nationally representative surveys carried out in 1992 and 1997. It finds that there was no evidence of an increase in commitment over the period. As in the early part of the decade, employees had only a weak level of attachment to their organizations. The analysis examines a number of factors that have been seen as important determinants of such commitment: changes in the level of skill, task discretion, controls over work performance, and forms of employee involvement. While there were changes in some of these factors that encouraged higher commitment, these were largely cancelled out by a notable decline in the discretion that employees were allowed to exercise over their work.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN:	0022-2380
Last Modified:	27 Oct 2022 09:46
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67655

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