组织承诺及其中的文化思考

Organizational commitment and cultural reflection on it

文章讨论了组织承诺的概念 ,提出组织承诺的结构及其要素 ;并运用态度理论阐述了组织承诺的社会心理机制和动态中的文化因素。组织承诺是成员指向其所在组织的一种心理倾向 ,其主体是组织中的成员 ;组织承诺的表现性质通常有感情承诺、继续承诺和规范承诺三种形式 ;成员组织承诺的指向是多向度地指向管理者和组织。作为一种工作态度 ,组织承诺具有态度的一般共性和心理机制 ,其中价值观与态度的关系、精神内容与行为的转换过程机理 ,说明信念和价值观是态度的基础 ;而信念和价值观是由个体社会化过程中所处的文化精神使之形成。所以 ,成员的组织承诺强度和向度具有显著的民族文化特征。

Organizational commitment is an important concept in studying organizational behavior. It is a psychological inclination of the member who holds towards the organization, also defined as job attitude. It is presented in the following three forms: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. As a job attitude, organizational commitment shares the common features and mechanisms with the general attitude, the basis of which are the relation between value and attitude, and the change process from thought to behavior. Because beliefs and values result from cultures in a society, the intensity and direction of organizational commitment will present conspicuous ethnical features.