Sex Differences Among Bank Employees in the Relationships of Commitment with Psychological Climate and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Chusmir's (1982) model of sex differences in organizational commitment was examined. Bank employees (N = 106) responded to two measures of organizational commitment (Hrebiniak & Alutto, 1972; Porter, Steers, Mowday, & Boulian, 1974) and to the Job Description Index (Smith, Kendall, & Hulin, 1969) and the Organizational Climate Questionnaire (James & Jones, 1974), which provided data representing the three components of Chusmir's model—person variables, job satisfaction, and moderated perceptions of the work environment (psychological climate). Although sex moderated the relationship between organizational commitment and the components of Chusmir's model, that relationship also varied with the instrument used to measure commitment, suggesting that different processes may underlie the commitment of men and women to the organizations they work for.