ABSTRACT Despite the increasing attention of organizational commitment in the management literature, most studies predominantly focus on full-time workers in traditional work settings. The results of this study highlight important directions for implementing strategies to increase casual academic’s organizational commitment. Organization commitment is important because it is known association with other important organizational variables such as turnover, absenteeism and work effort. This study provides the first step in better understanding the factors that affect the organization commitment © 2012 Elixir All rights reserved. ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received: 30 May 2012; Received in revised form: 5 September 2012; Accepted: 14 September 2012; Keywords Organizational commitment, Turnover, Absenteeism, Work effort. Elixir Psychology 50 (2012) 10466-10470 Psychology Available online at www.elixirpublishers.com (Elixir International Journal)