several studies have examined the relations between organizational commitment and attendance as expected affective commitment is positively related to attendance in their meta-analysis of data obtained from 23 samples mathieu and zajac reported a modest mean corrected correlation of 10 between attendance and commitment there are several reasons why an employee might sures of work theoretically of course we would only expect affective commitment influence attendance in those situations in which the employee had a choice about whether to come to work that is although commitment should be