Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 3: Chapter 3
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)t is important to be able to retain those employees for long periods of time so that the organization can benefit from their efforts. Organizational commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization. This influence whether an employee is retained, or turns over to another job. Withdrawal behavior: employee actions that are intended to avoid work situations, behaviors that may eventually culminate ) quitting the organization. Forms of commitment: to identify these, ask yourself what do you feel if you left the organization. Affective commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of emotional attachment or involvement with the organization. This kind of employees tend to engage in more interpersonal and organizational from the citizenship behavior, such as helping, and sportsmanship shown. Mata-analysis, revealed a moderately strong correlation between affective commitment and citizenship behavior. Erosion model: employees with fewer bonds (cid:523)connections(cid:524) with co-workers are more likely to quit the organization.