Unfortunately,adaping the TCM as a guiding framework did not provide the general definition needed to establish the core essence of the construct and to distinguish commitment from related constructs (e.g., motive, attitudes). Meyer and Herscovitch (2001) considered such a distinction to be particularly important because, without it commitment loses its value as an explanatory concept. That is, “[i]f commitment is northing more than a state of mind that exists when an individual experiences a positive exchange relationship with some entity, it contributes northing beyond exchange theories of motivation (e.g., expectancy, equity) to our understanding of organizational behavior. Similarly , if commitment is viewed simply as a positive attitude, there is little to be gained by continuing to study it outside the confines of more general attitude research” (P.30)