Abstract

The problem. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among affective commitment, normative commitment, and continuance commitment on moral reasoning. ;Method. The Affective Commitment Scale, the Normative Commitment Scale, the Continuance Commitment Scale, and the Defining Issues Test were administered to 202 management-, supervisory-, and nonmanagement-level employees of three service-based organizations. Resulting data were analyzed by applying correlational techniques. Multiple regression techniques were used to investigate the relationship among scores from the questionnaires. Factor analytic techniques were used on the three commitment questionnaires to confirm the existence of three separate factors of organizational commitment. ;Results. No statistically significant relationship was found among any of the three areas of commitment and moral reasoning. No significance was found for a relationship among the three areas of commitment on moral reasoning. Factor analysis produced evidence of three separate factors of organizational commitment. ;Results of the study did not support the premise that there is a relationship between organization commitment and moral reasoning. The study did support the theoretical premise that organizational commitment is multidimensional