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Örgütsel bağlılık ve sadakat, özel sektör kuruluşlarında olduğu kadar, kamu kurumları açısından da oldukça önemli kavramlardır. Kurumunun amaçlarını, değer ve inançlarını kabul ederek bağlılık gösteren bir personelin bu bağlılığını doğruluk ve dürüstlük zemininde sağlam bir sadakat anlayışıyla desteklemesinin, kurumsal başarının sağlanmasının yanı sıra kurumsal aidiyet duygusunu da perçinlediği düşünülmektedir. Bu açıdan kamu kurumlarında çalışanların örgütsel bağlılıklarında örgütsel sadakat kavramının yeri ve öneminin bilinmesinde fayda mülahaza edilmiştir, Organizational commitment and organizational loyalty are important concepts for public institutions as well as for private sector organizations. It is believed that the corporate sense of belonging as well as the achievement of institutional success is empowered by supporting the commitment of the organization with a firm loyalty based on the integrity and honesty of its staff who accept and adhere to its aims, values and beliefs. In this respect, there is a benefit in knowing the place and concept of organizational loyalty in the organizational commitment of employees in public institutions

From an Afrikaner perspective, a firmly established way of life is at stake in the crisis situation of South Africa. The ongoing struggle centers on two passionately held principles. Taken in tandem, these two fundamental convictions have over the years assumed a quasiconfessional status. The one is freedom (vryheid), the other identity (identiteit). A fierce determination to preserve its privileged freedom pervades the Afrikaner community. They fought long and hard throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to achieve liberation from the stranglehold of English domination and other opposing forces. Within the ranks of Afrikanerdom this hard-won freedom to exploit their own tradition is as clearly a self-evidently righteous cause as it is a self-serving one in the eyes of others. And they are not about to surrender it easily. The flip-side of that same resolve is to safeguard the identity of their culture. Among Afrikaners self-identity is a holistic concept which involves a certain worldview with a concomitant social and political philosophy and lifestyle. This corporate sense of belonging touches all aspects of reality and every walk of life. For a majority it means retaining their deep roots in a Reformed tradition, though with some significant shades of difference. Many are locked into a highly scholastic understanding of their heritage, while others advocate a more dynamic and reformational approach to the societal issues that confront the region. Akin to this joint appeal to the living tradition which has shaped their religious legacy are the common ties of blood relationships which define their racial and ethnic identity. This is the level at which the conflicts within South Africa appear to surface most violently. But race and ethnicity are but the most obvious tip of a much larger iceberg. Beneath the surface lies a cluster of other very strong and closely inter-related motivations. There is a very intense and often desperate