CAREER STAGES AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT: A CASE OF MALAYSIAN MANAGERS
Fauziah Noordin, Abdul Rahman Abdul Rahim, Abu Hassan Ibrahim, Mohd Shukri Omar

ABSTRACT
This paper reports a study of career-stage effects on organizational commitment among Malaysian managers. The main aim of this study is to examine the relationship between career stage and organizational commitment and to determine the effects of career stage on organizational commitment. Organizational commitment was measured using the 24-item scale developed by Allen and Meyer. This scale measures affective, continuance, and normative organizational commitment. Career stage was operationalized on the basis of three criteria: age, organizational tenure, and positional tenure. In this study, it appears that neither organizational tenure nor positional tenure significantly affected any of the components of organizational commitment among the Malaysian managers. Only age was found to have a significant effect on these managers, and it is limited to the affective component of organizational commitment.

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