A CRITICAL VIEW ON HPWS AND EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT-FORM OF COMMITMENT MATTERS
A CRITICAL VIEW ON HPWS AND EMPLOYEE COMMITMENT-FORM OF COMMITMENT MATTERS

Summary/Abstract: This paper has examined critically the impact of HPWS on types of commitment through literature surveys of HPWS and commitment. Particularly the employee behaviors towards job stress and intensity as possible outcomes and predicted their roles between HPWS and employee commitments viz. affective, continuous and occupational commitments in Japanese organizations. The author has argued that in ‘reality’ HPWS may not have an ‘ideally’ positive effect on “affective commitment” in the presence of job stress and work intensity. There may be an increase of “continuous commitment”, whereas their “normative” and “occupational commitment” probably will remain unaffected. The author has also argued possible relations of job stress and job intensity to different forms of commitment against researches showing commitments giving rise to job stress to the employees, thus a reverse phenomenon can also be observed in organizations at Japan. The arguments and view points expressed may also serve as an extension to Takeuchi et al (2007) study on HPWS in Japan.

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