Does organizational commitment expose a risk for military leaders? Investigations of organizational commitment and organizational climate dimensions
ENThe Baltic-Sea region emphasize the continued need for the EU countries to be actively engaged in “NATO’s collective security measures, international operations and stabilisation efforts” (Fredriksen 2017). Though the idea of small forces was criticized by some scholars (Zdanavičius 2017), a different approach towards Lithuania’s defence policy was adopted by Lithuanian decision makers after the Ukrainian crisis. The shift of defence policy revealed the issues related to the attraction and retention of qualified personnel. Defined as the “greedy organizations”, military organizations raise higher demands, seek exclusive loyalty and commitment of personnel (Alvinus et al. 2017). Though organizational commitment attracted a number of researchers in recent years, the studies focused on military organizations’ context are scant (Allen, 2003; Alvinus et al. 2017). We hypothesize that organizational climate is interrelated to organizational commitment [p. 33].
