Review on Affective Commitment of Manager

Abstract

So far, research on affective commitment is mostly concerning the employees, while specifically concerning managers is very rare. Referencing the domestic and foreign relevant research results, this paper tries to get enlightenments from some sporadic empirical research, and to summarize the factors affecting affective commitment of manager, and to improve the level of affective commitment of manager. This paper summarizes the definitions of affective commitment in domestic and foreign firstly, and then generalizes the antecedent variables of affective commitment of managers from three aspects: managers’ personal factors, job factors and organizational factors. Finally, this paper studies the ways of improving the affective commitment of manager.