中華心理學刊 民 87，40 卷，2 期，105-116
Chinese Journal of Psychology 1998, Vol.40, No.2, 105-116

Chi-Sum Wong（Department of Management Tge Chinese University of Hong Kong）；Hsiang-Lain Kung（Human Resource Division Institute of Industrial Technology Education National Taiwan Normal University）

Abstract

Although there has been a lot of studies on organizational commitment both in western countries and Taiwan, the concept of commitment towards specific constituencies has received relatively few research attention. Chinese scholars have argued that' commitment towards specific persons may be an important concept and Chinese usually have stronger sense of responsibilities and obligations towards those who have closer relationship with them. It is very possible that Chinese employees will develop commitment to other employees first before they build up strong commitment towards their organization. As an exploratory effort, a sample of I 05 employees in the Science Park in Taiwan were contacted personally and invited to complete a questionnaire. Results indicate that the correlation between organizational commitment and commitment towards top managers is the strongest (r = .59), while it is weakest with commitment towards subordinates (r = .43). Using nested model testing, it appears that commitment towards supervisors will have direct effect on satisfaction with supervision, while commitment towards subordinates will have direct effect on social satisfaction. Implications for future research are discussed.

Keywords：Commitment to specific constituency, Organizational commitment