To overcome the conceptual fuzziness and the “measurement cacophony” related to the job involvement (JI) concept, Kanungo (1979) proposed an approach to JI focused on the individual’s cognition about his or her identification with work. Also, Kanungo’s JI scale has been developed to be...

Le concept d’engagement a fait l’objet de très nombreuses recherches, depuis les travaux d’Allport (1943) qui le définissent comme une attitude. Reeve et Smith (2001) recensent plus de 1200 articles dédiés à son étude, sur la seule période 1968-1998. De plus, des recherches...

This paper contends that the recent development of organizational socialization (OS) scales has been so closely intertwined with OS content research that OS scale dimensions have been identified as specific OS contents, without fully taking into consideration the underlying OS processes. As a...