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Understanding the roots of organizational commitment—and the fundamental drive behind why people work—has long been a contentious subject within the scientific literature of human resource management. Classical readings of organizational behavior historically tended to reduce complex human variables to a simple equation of cash and material rewards. It was an approach that viewed the employee merely as an economic machine, one whose output was directly tethered to the volume of financial resources injected into it. Over time, as more critical theories entered the management sphere, nuanced elements like workplace quality,...