TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-person Variation in Affective Commitment to Teams: Where It Comes from and Why It Matters
AU - Becker, Thomas E.
AU - Ullrich, Johannes
AU - van Dick, Rolf
PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - Teamwork is crucial to organizational success and commitment to teams is an important predictor of team-related behaviors. However, theorists and researchers have typically assumed that commitment levels are generally stable within-persons, increasing or decreasing as a result of substantial organizational changes. This position is at odds with the evidence of systematic and regular intraindividual fluctuations in personal attributes and workplace behaviors. We draw upon affective events theory to present a model explaining how certain events and dispositions produce vacillations in affective reactions which, in turn, are likely to create within-person variation in affective commitment to teams (WPVCteams). We further propose that WPVCteams enhances prediction and explanation of intraindividual fluctuations in work behavior and, interindividually, moderates the relationship between level of commitment and behavior.
AB - Teamwork is crucial to organizational success and commitment to teams is an important predictor of team-related behaviors. However, theorists and researchers have typically assumed that commitment levels are generally stable within-persons, increasing or decreasing as a result of substantial organizational changes. This position is at odds with the evidence of systematic and regular intraindividual fluctuations in personal attributes and workplace behaviors. We draw upon affective events theory to present a model explaining how certain events and dispositions produce vacillations in affective reactions which, in turn, are likely to create within-person variation in affective commitment to teams (WPVCteams). We further propose that WPVCteams enhances prediction and explanation of intraindividual fluctuations in work behavior and, interindividually, moderates the relationship between level of commitment and behavior.
KW - Within-person variation
KW - Employee commitment
KW - Teamwork
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/qmb_facpub_sm/147
UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2012.07.006
U2 - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2012.07.006
DO - 10.1016/j.hrmr.2012.07.006
M3 - Article
VL - 23
JO - Human Resource Management Review
JF - Human Resource Management Review
ER -