An Empirical Investigation of Organizational Commitment and Its Correlates in Korean Professional and Non-Professional Employees

Abstract

Cross-cultural reseachers have long been interested in transferability of U.S.

organizational concepts and measures to another culture. "A major concern in cross-cultural studies is that concepts and measures developed for organizational

research in the United States may be culture bound" (Sekeran, 1981: p. 409). Comparative management has been a battle field among scholars for

illuminating this issue. For example, Farmer and his colleagues (Farmer and Richman, 1964; Farmer, 1973) argued for significance of cultural constraints on managerial behavior while Negandhi and his colleagues (Negandhi and Estafen, 1965; Negandhi and Prasad, 1971) advocated that uniculturally developed theories can apply other culture.