ABSTRACT
A common theme underlying several of the substantively oriented chapters of this volume (chapter 1, Klein, Molloy, & Cooper; chapter 2, Meyer; chapter 3, Riketta & Van Dick; chapter 13, Becker, Klein, & Meyer) is the need to align our theoretical systems describing the role of commitment in a way that more accurately represents the nature of today’s employeremployee relationships than is currently the case. Collectively, the chapters of this volume denote that understanding commitment’s theoretical role in the contemporary workplace is complex. While this complexity is obvious, what may not be is that the adequate examination and testing of the proposed systems may not be undertaken solely using conventional (i.e., old) methodologies and analytical schemes.
