ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents archived data collected using ad hoc or "analog" measures of organizational commitment. It looks at the psychometric properties of soldiers' responses to affective commitment (AC) and continuance commitment (CC) scales by J. P. Meyer and N. J. Allen and examines the dimensionality of a short form of AC and CC scales derived from them. The book attempts to account for potential organizational commitment antecedents and examines gender, ethnicity, branch of the Army, and perceptions of tokenism as possible antecedents of AC, CC, and normative commitment. It investigates the relation of these potential antecedents of commitment, and the commitment measures themselves, to peer-rated leadership performance as an outcome variable. The book demonstrates the robustness of concepts of AC and CC and their underlying measures by using them in very different military samples, including spouses, and under a variety of operational conditions.
