Skip to main content
Article
Within-person Variation in Affective Commitment to Teams: Where It Comes from and Why It Matters
Human Resource Management Review
  • Thomas E. Becker, University of Delaware
  • Johannes Ullrich, Goethe University
  • Rolf van Dick, Goethe University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2013
Keywords
  • Within-person variation,
  • Employee commitment,
  • Teamwork
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2012.07.006
Disciplines
Abstract

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.

Citation / Publisher Attribution

Human Resource Management Review, v. 23, issue 2, p. 131-147

Citation Information
Thomas E. Becker, Johannes Ullrich and Rolf van Dick. "Within-person Variation in Affective Commitment to Teams: Where It Comes from and Why It Matters" Human Resource Management Review Vol. 23 Iss. 2 (2013) p. 131 - 147
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas-becker/44/