ADM 2341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Golden Handcuffs, Organizational Commitment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2341
• Professor: Prakash Sharma

Document Summary

Employees desire to remain a member of the org. Influences whether employees stay at org (retention) or leaves to pursue another job (turnover) Actions that employees perform to avoid the work situation. Emotional attachment to, and involvement with, that org (emotion based reasons) An awareness of costs associated with leaving it (cost-based reasons) Focus of commitment refers to the various people, places and things that can improve desire to remain a member of an org. Employees with a high sense of affective commitment. Erosion model: employees with fewer bonds will be most likely to quit org. Social influence model: employees who have direct linkages with leavers will be more likely to leave. Tends to create more passive form of loyalty. Negligible or negative relationship with work outcomes, except turnover. Sometimes staying because the have to (golden handcuffs) What he/she would have to sacrifice for job change. Staying is the right or moral thing to do (should)