Abstract:
Employee’s emotional attachment to their workplaces (referred to as
affective commitment) plays crucial roles in their long-term performance and
interactions. The literature on employee commitment to their works advances several
factors that explain the nature, directions, and implications of employees’ affective
commitment. However, most of these studies were carried out within private industrial
settings. Relatively few of such studies investigate leader-member exchange (LMX) as
a multi-dimensional antecedent to employees’ affective commitment in knowledgeintensive
industry context such as the academia. Specifically, relatively few studies
were done that were grounded on established empirical literature and sound theoretical
grids investigate about the influences of employees’ affect, loyalty, contribution, and
professional respect on the affective commitment. In this paper therefore, we traced the
multi-dimensional LMX antecedents of the affective commitment of administrative
employees in Saudi Arabian Universities and then develop a model for investigating the
impact in such relationship between these two important variables
