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Enhancing organisational commitment through task significance: the moderating role of openness to experience

Anabel Fernández-mesaAna García-graneroJulia Olmos PeñuelaOscar LlopisOscar Llopis

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Strategy and ManagementOpenness to experience05 social sciencesPsychological interventionSample (statistics)Organizational commitmentAffective commitmentTask (project management)0502 economics and businessOpenness to experience[SHS.GESTION]Humanities and Social Sciences/Business administration050211 marketingContinuance commitmentPsychologyTask significancePractical implicationsSocial psychology050203 business & management

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International audience; Researchers have extensively explored the factors influencing employees’ organisational commitment. However, few studies make an explicit distinction between different commitment types when exploring its determinants, and the scholarly attention to individual differences is also limited. In this paper, we confirm that developing managerial interventions to enhance task significance can be useful to promote organisational commitment, but this relationship is contingent on the commitment type and the employees’ openness to experience. We focus on two forms of organisational commitment: affective and continuance commitment. Our study shows that task significance is a better predictor of affective commitment than continuance commitment.We also find that increasing task significance is particularly good to promote more continuance commitment among employees with low levels of openness to experience. Based on data gathered from a sample of 403 employees working in Spanish firms, we find support for these ideas and develop practical implications.

10.1016/j.emj.2019.12.010https://hal-rennes-sb.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03004571