we turn now to an examination of the research evidence pertainning to these various propositions in our review we describe the pattern of findings and where relevant highlight the conditions that appear to influence the strength and direction of the links between commitment and behavior the reader will notice two definning features of this research first the nature of commitment mean it is difficult if not impossible to manipulate levels of commitment directly thus although we discuss the relations between commitment and work behavior by using cause and effect terminology very few of these consequence of commitment studies are designed in a way that fully justifies such language second considerably more attention has focused affective and continuance commitment than on normative commitment commitment than on