Related to the notion of turnover is the concept of actual tenure in the
organization (Salancik, 1977). Here again, as shown in Table 7, significant
correlations were found between the OCQ and actual tenure.
Finally, we would expect commitment to be modestly related to em-
ployee performance. This relationship should not be overly strong in view
of the many factors that have been found to influence performance (e.g.,
role clarity, reward systems, etc.). Mowday et al. (1974) reported the
mean level of commitment for employees in high performing bank
branches was greater than the mean for employees in low performing
branches.