TY - JOUR AB - Commitment of employees can be an important instrument for improving the performance of organizations. Based on international literature and studies, commitment has been defined as organizational and task commitment, and is related to personal, job and organizational characteristics. Intends to explore some important relations between the characteristics of commitment and organizational effects. Between commitment and the level of the organization the most important relations are a better communication and less illness; at the level of the individual employee the commitment to change and to take part very actively in change processes, bringing up new ideas, is important. These conclusions are in line with the literature. Commitment is strongly connected with colleagues and the style of management and could be seen as an important asset of the learning company. VL - 22 IS - 6 SN - 0309-0590 DO - 10.1108/03090599810224701 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599810224701 AU - Nijhof Wim J. AU - de Jong Margriet J. AU - Beukhof Gijs PY - 1998 Y1 - 1998/01/01 TI - Employee commitment in changing organizations: an exploration T2 - Journal of European Industrial Training PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 243 EP - 248 Y2 - 2024/09/18 ER -