Fueling Employees' Commitment to Organizational Career: The Role of Autonomous Motivation and Supervisor's Control

The purpose of the study is to determine the potential roles of superiors' psychological control, workers' satisfaction of basic psychological needs, and workers' motivation in how employees are committed to an organizational career. The study was conducted using a cross-sectional correlational design with data collected from 304 workers enrolled at the university level, and the proposed model was tested using path analysis. The results highlight that the more the people feel their supervisor uses psychological control, the lower their level of commitment to an organizational career is, this is because psychological control appears to be related to low levels of psychological needs satisfaction which is associated with low levels of autonomous motivation, and this motivation is, in turn, related to employees' commitment.