Finally as matheiu and zajack 1990 acknowledged many link between commitment and employee behavior might be moderate by other situational factors for both scientific and practical purposes we must learn much more about the conditions under which strong affective commitment will be most likely to influence behavior at work reduced we have already referred some possible moderating variable and others have been explored in the literature for example recent evidence suggest that the relations between affective commitment and performance are moderated by employees level of financial need breet corn and slocum 1995 and their career stage cohen 1991