The Human Resource Management - HRM, in fact, tries to influence the commitment in the workplace, and this attachment may assume multiple means, that are examined here as the links that workers have been established between the various forms of commitment and organizational behavior. So, the main purpose of this paper is to test the Meyer and Allen (1984, 1991, 1997) three-component model in a public company of Brazil, looking over how it could appear in that context. At the end of this research some other patterns of commitment in the workplace were discovered, showing a new perspective in organizational researches.
organizational commitment; human resource management; public company; organizational behavior
