This study aims to compare the type of organizational commitment in two manufacturing facilities’ employees. We compared also the employees’ profile to find answers of what kind of employee relates to each type of commitment and why both companies present so different results. An analysis of k-means clusters under the k-nearest neighbor method was carried out for identifying subgroups inside the studied sample which was 254 direct employees. Profiles with elevated affective commitment scores indicate that employees feel emotionally attached to the organization. Additionally, two analyses of variance were performed; one for identifying significant differences in the dimensions that conform organizational commitment and sociodemographic aspects, such as age, marital status, gender and seniority; the second one as a means to identifying differences among items that conform job stability, and the clusters previously identified by k-means clusters analysis. Results show that affective commitment was higher in one of the facilities, while continuance commitment was higher in the other one which is important for the implications that they bring to the involved organizations.

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