RT Article
T1 To be committed or not: examining effects of personal and workplace variables on the organizational commitment of Southern prison staff
JF Criminal justice studies
VO 30
IS 3
SP 223
OP 239
A1 Lambert, Eric G.
A2 Buckner, Zachary
A2 Haynes, Stacy H.
A2 Keena, Linda Denise
A2 May, David
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1728599822
AB This study examined how personal and workplace variables were related to organizational commitment among staff working at a large Southern prison. The personal variables were gender, age, position, tenure, educational level, and supervisory status. The workplace variables were assessment of training, job variety, role clarity, input into decision-making, and instrumental communication. The results indicate workplace variables play a greater role in shaping affective commitment of surveyed Southern prison staff than do personal variables. The personal variables explained only 10% of the variance in the commitment index, while workplace factors accounted for approximately 59% of the variance and were significant determinants of organizational commitment among the respondents. In the multivariate regression analysis, age, assessment of training, job variety, role clarity, input into decision-making, and instrumental communication all had positive associations with commitment. Educational level had a negative relationship with commitment. Implications of these findings for policy and future research are also discussed.
K1 Prison staff
K1 Input into decision-making
K1 Instrumental communication
K1 Job variety
K1 Organizational Commitment
K1 Role clarity
K1 Training assessment
DO 10.1080/1478601X.2017.1293536