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A Study of the Relationship Between Organizational Commitment and Human Values in Four Countries

Industrial and Organizational Psychology. sglazer{at}email.sjsu.edu

Sophie Carole Daniel

Social Psychology at Pierre Mendès-France, in Saint Martin D’Hères, France. sophh{at}wanadoo.fr

Kenneth M. Short

Agency/Community Counseling at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH shortratt{at}yahoo.com

Cross-cultural comparisons of the relationship between human values and both continuance commitment (CC) and affective commitment (AC) are presented using data collected from 1259 nurses from Hungary, Italy, the UK, and USA. That correlations between Schwartz’s (1992) values and both AC and CC will differ between communal and contractual cultures was partially supported. Moreover, certain values correlate more often with AC or CC depending on the culture one is in. Openness to change values accounted for significant variance in AC in Hungary, Italy and the USA. Pan-culturally, openness to change values partially mediated the effects of countries on AC. It is concluded that values likely influence one’s organizational commitment and that the values people endorse might be influenced by national culture.

Key Words: commitment across national cultures • values and commitment

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