According to related management literatures, the concept of
organizational commitment was not much acknowledged to a great extent
until the pedagogy of organizational and management science had entered the
Human Relations era. A management theorist, Mary Parker Follet, is believed
to be the first to mention individuals loyalty to the organization. (Robbins,1990
: 89) Chester I. Barnard came closer to some current definitions on organizational
commitment when he called for an integration of employees purposes and
organizations goals. Nonetheless, among the earlier scholars who mentioned