Regarding foundation universities, it has been found out that the strongest positive
relationship with continuance commitment is of years in the organization, and the
continuance commitment increases as working years in the current organization increases.
This finding is quite consistent with the literature (Mathieu & Zajac 1990; Meyer et al. 1993;
Lok and Crawford 2001; Meyer et al. 2002; Simsek and Aslan 2007). Meyer et al. (1993) has
pointed out a positive relationship between the total years in the organization with all
commitment dimensions, and again revealed that continuance commitment has a positive
relationship with the total number of years in the organization (Meyer et al. 2002). This means
that total years spent in an organization, as well as efforts and investments made for that
organization, make a person feel obliged to stay in that organization, meaning an increase in
continuance commitment.