relations with affective commitment results of several recent studies suggest that overall employees with strong affective commitment to the organization work harder at their jobs and perform them better than do those with weak commitment many of these findings are based on employee reports of their own commitment many of these findings are based on employee reports of their own behavior affective commitment has been positively correlated for example with various self-reported measures of work effort affective commitment has also been linked to managers self-reports adherence to organizational policy in their study of managers of subsidiary operations within multinational corporations kim and mauborgne found that those with strong affective commitment to the organization reported higher levels of compliance with strategic decisions made at the corporate level than did those with weaker commitment similarly nouri found that managers with strong affective commitment reported that they were more likely to adhere to corporate policy by avoiding budgetary slack in their finalcial planning than were those with low affective commitment finally affective commitment finally affective commitment has been positively correlate with self-reported measures of overall job performance in several studies