The literature contains some support for the idea that organizational structure variables influence affective commitment for example decentralization has been related to higher affective commitment bateman and strasser 1984 overall however the evidence regarding these link is neither strong nor consistent it might simply be that in forming attitudes toward an organization employees are more attuned to their own day-to-day work experiences than they are to these less tangible macro-level variables it is also possible that stronger relations between organizational characteristics and commitment would be observed if they were examined by using an organizational level of analysis