BSAD 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Golden Handcuffs, Organizational Commitment, Embeddedness

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BSAD 120
• Professor: Ante Glavas

Document Summary

Desire on the part of an employee to remain a member of an organization. Goal of retention is: limit voluntary departures, keep investments made in training and development, keep quality talent, retain institutional memory. Organizational commitment and employee withdrawal are inversely correlated. 3 types of commitment: want, need, ought to remain. Affective commitment: want to remain; attachment to organization; this is often what is meant by the ter(cid:373)s (cid:862)lo(cid:455)alt(cid:455)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863, emotion-based. Continuance commitment: need to remain; a desire to remain because the costs associated with leaving are high (e. g. , high embeddedness, cost-based. Normative commitment: ought to remain; a desire to remain due to a feeling of obligation (can turn into (cid:862)golde(cid:374) ha(cid:374)d(cid:272)uffs(cid:863), obligation-based. All employees experience varying levels of all 3 types of commitment to the larger organization, their manager and other foci. It is incorrect to state someone is committed or not say to what degree.