ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE (PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ASPECT)
Keywords:
psychological and behavioral mechanisms, military forces, free association experiment.
Abstract
The aim of this article is to study the structure of organizational commitment as well as the psychological and behavioral mechanisms behind it among groups of military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Based on the assertion that the army has an authoritarian (directive) style of management characterized by principles of unity of command and high centralization of leadership, in this work with the purpose of getting the sincere answers and reliable results the preference was given to the psycholinguistic method of research, namely, free association experiment. The results of the study proved that there are significant differences in the structure of organizational commitment when it comes to the position of individuals in the military hierarchy, that is, whether they hold a military/civilian position or are just beginning their military career as cadets. Dominant element in the structure of organizational commitment of civilian personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is affective commitment, in relation to servicemen it is continuance commitment, in relation to cadets it is normative commitment.
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4. Bailey, B. (2015). When-Military-Intelligence-meets-Emotional-Intelligence. URL: https://mtceurope.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/When-Military-Intelligence-meets-Emotional- Intelligence1.pdf
5. Bourg, C., & Segal, M. W. (1999). The Impact of Family Supportive Policies and Practices on Organizational Commitment to the Army. Armed Forces & Society, 25(4), 633–652. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45346332
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12. Inderjit, S., Kwong, F.W., Liaw J., & Mohaiyadin, N. M. (2018). Impacts of Leadership Styles and Organizational Commitment towards Job Performance in the Malaysian Army. Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, 12(7): 4-9. https://doi.org/10.22587/anas.2018.12.7.2
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16. Langkamer, K. L., & Ervin, K. S. (2008). Psychological climate, organizational commitment and morale: Implications for Army captains' career intent. Military Psychology, 20(4), 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/08995600802345113
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24. Sarason, S.B. (1974). The Psychological Sense of Community: Prospects for a Community Psychology. Jossey-Bass, London.
25. Shanker, M., & Sayeed, O. B. (2015). Organizational Commitment: Some Linkages with Emotional Intelligence. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 51(2), 312-326.
26. Stazyk, E. C., Pandey, S. K., & Wright, B. E. (2011). Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment: The Importance of Institutional Context. The American Review of Public Administration, 41(6), 603-624. https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074011398119
27. Sternin, Iosif. 2020. Problemy interpretacii rezul'tatov associativnyh eksperimentov [Problems of interpreting the results of associative experiments]. Voprosy psiholingvistiki – Journal of Psycholinguistics, 3(45), 110-125. https://doi.org/10.30982/2077-5911-2020-45-3- 110-125
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29. Valor-Segura, I., Navarro-Carrillo, G., Extremera, N., Lozano, L. M., García-Guiu, C., Roldán-Bravo, M. I., & Ruiz-Moreno, A. (2020). Predicting Job Satisfaction in Military Organizations: Unpacking the Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork Communication, and Job Attitudes in Spanish Military Cadets. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 875. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00875
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Published
2022-12-26
How to Cite
Khraban, T. (2022). ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE (PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ASPECT). Scientific Journal of Polonia University, 54(5), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.23856/5404
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