ADM 2336 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Organizational Commitment, Embeddedness, Negative Affectivity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: C. Elliott

Document Summary

Organizational commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization. Influences whether an employee stays at the organization (retention) or leaves (turnover). Employees engage in withdrawal behaviour: actions to avoid the work situation, way lead to quitting. Affective commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of emotional attachment. (you stay because you want to) Employees who feel a sense of affective commitment identify with the organization, accept that organization"s goals and values, and are more willing to exert extra effort on behalf of the organization. By identifying with organization, they come to view organizational membership as important to their sense of self: erosion model: a model that suggests that employees with fewer bonds with co- workers are more likely to quit the organization. Social influence model: a model that suggests that employees with direct linkages to co-workers who leave the organization will themselves be more likely to leave.