MNC commitment, OCB role definition and intent to leave in subsidiary top managers: The moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values

The current paper analyses in depth and expands on the study of the consequences of organisational commitment in the MNC setting. To that end the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance as a personal cultural value is studied and two consequences of MNC commitment are analysed: intent to leave and organisational citizenship behaviour. The empirical analysis carried out on a cross-organisational sample of 101 top managers of MNC's subsidiaries located in Spain confirms the moderating role of uncertainty avoidance for the affective and normative commitments, as well as its moderating effect on the influence that organisational citizenship behaviour role definition exerts on intent to leave. Implications for management theory and practice are discussed.

Research highlights
► We analyse intent to leave and OCB role definition of MNC's subsidiary top managers.
► We examine the influence of affective and normative commitments on those attitudes.
► We study uncertainty avoidance personal cultural values as a moderating variable.
► It moderates OCB role definition-intent to leave and commitment-attitudes relations.
► OCB is mainly affected by normative commitment; intent to leave by the affective one.