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ABSTRACT
Staff are the most vital resource for any correctional facility. As corrections is a very expensive budget item in the U.S., finding and keeping dedicated employees is essential. Organizational commitment refers the bond between correctional staff and their institution. A strong bond is essential for the safety and security of both employees and inmates, as well as ensuring that the institution runs effectively. This review explores past research on three different types of organizational commitment (affective, moral, and continuance), in order to summarize past results and to reveal areas remaining unexplored. This paper examines both the antecedents and outcomes of organizational commitment. Through a systematic review of past studies, we have identified both positive and negative workplace factors that influence organizational commitment. In addition, we report how organizational commitment affects various outcomes, such as burnout and turnover intent. Understanding how to increase staff commitment can provide a blueprint for administrators to enhance correctional operations and employee satisfaction.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank the editor and anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions, which improved the paper. The authors also thank Janet Lambert for editing and proofreading the paper.
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Eric G. Lambert
Eric G. Lambert is a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. His research interests include organizational issues, job and organizational effects on the attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of criminal justice employees, and the international perceptions, attitudes, and views on criminal justice issues.
Matthew Leone
Matthew Leone is a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine. He has co-authored three books in the areas of corrections and general criminal justice, and he has published many articles. His areas of specialization include corrections and community based corrections, juvenile justice, drugs and crime, and white collar crime.
Nancy L. Hogan
Nancy L. Hogan is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Ferris State University in Michigan, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University in Arizona, USA. Her research interests include job satisfaction and organizational issues of correctional staff, use of force, and cognitive behavioral treatment for inmates.
Zachary Buckner
Zachary Buckner earned a Master of Science in Criminal Justice program at the University of Mississippi. He is interested in researching correctional treatment programs and correctional staff. He is currently working in the field of institutional corrections, including serving as a case manager.
Robert Worley
Robert Worley is an associate professor and Director of Criminal Justice Programs at Lamar University. He earned his doctorate in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. His interests include inmate-guard inappropriate relationships, issues related to publication productivity and rankings in criminology and criminal justice, police and prison officers' liabilities for the use of tasers and stun guns, computer crime and cyber-bullying.
Vidisha Barua Worley
Vidisha Barua Worley is an associate professor of Criminal Justice at at Lamar University. She earned her doctorate in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. She also earned an LLM in Criminal Law from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She was a journalist in India for 6 years. Her research areas include police and prison officers’ liabilities for the use of tasers and stun guns, the death penalty, prison rape, correctional officer deviance, inappropriate relationships between inmates and correctional officers, cyber-bullying and sexting, ethical issues in criminal justice, and terrorism.