ABSTRACT
Few studies have examined the influence of the family and other nonwork domains on work behavior and particularly on commitment. Organizational researchers and management studies have mostly ignored the influence of families and focused instead almost exclusively on job and economic factors to predict performance and commitment (Orthner & Pittman, 1986). As a result the work and nonwork relation has attracted much speculation but has produced little in the way of concrete results. Despite some research and debate on the issue, the relation between work and other aspects of our lives is still not well understood (Near, Rice, & Hunt, 1980; Perlow, 1998). This is quite true for the relation between nonwork domains and commitment in the workplace. This relation has rarely been examined and in fact has been neglected by commitment scholars. They have focused on work-related variables as determinants of commitment forms and overlooked the possible effects of extra-work factors on this relation.
