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to identify whether, and if so which, managerial interventions are effective in controlling the effect of rolestress on important job outcomes, such as OC.This paper aims to contribute to the literature, first, by studying the effects of the role stressors(ambiguity and conflict ) on Allen and Meyer‘s (1990) three component model of OC (affective,normative and continuance), since literature, to date, on the role-stress-OC relationship has only looked atthe uni-dimensional construct of commitment. Second, this paper addresses another crucial gap in theliterature by investigating the moderating influence of organizational practices on the role stress-OCrelationships, as direct effects of organizational variables on role stressors have been more frequentlystudied as compared to studying the moderating effects of such variables (Singh, Verbeke and Rhoads1996).The structure of this paper is as follows. In the next section, the literature on OC, role stress andmanagerial interventions is briefly reviewed and the rationales for the predicted relationships arepresented. Following this, the methodology of data collection and analysis is described, and the results arepresented. The paper concludes with a discussion of the study‘s implications for theory and practice.Possible limitations of this study and future research directions are also sketched.LITERATURE REVIEWOrganizational commitmentAllen and Meyer (1990) conceptualized OC as a multi-dimensional construct, and proposed athree-component model based on the three general themes of OC is found in the literature, i.e., theaffective attachment (affective), the perceived costs (continuance), and the obligation (normative)associated with the concept of commitment. Research findings have supported the existence of these threeseparate but interrelated components of commitment (Allen and Meyer 1990; Meyer and Smith, 2000).