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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Career commitment in an organizational setting

Abstract

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This dissertation investigates the determinants of career commitment in an organizational setting. It utilizes the results of a mailed survey sent to a sample of Salvation Army officers in the United States. A major portion of the work involves the examination of the commitment concept as a dependent variable. The emphasis is on social psychological predictors with a view to developing a predictive model suitable for screening and applicant evaluation. A path analytic strategy is employed to analyze the multivariate relationships. Included in the analysis is the decomposition of the effect of the predictors on the commitment variable. A reduced model emerges from the preliminary analysis and is itself subjected to analytic scrutiny.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Sociology
Department dc:contributor.department
Sociology
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Year dc:date.issued
1980

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Nieves, Alvaro Lezcano

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71121
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/71121

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Nieves, Alvaro Lezcano. Career commitment in an organizational setting. doctoral thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1980. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71121