ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Absenteeism, Embeddedness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 2336
• Professor: Catherine Elliot

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Influences whether an employee stays at the organization (is retained) or leaves to pursue another job (turns over: can be costly to the organization. Higher level employees are costlier to replace: what happens if commitment is low, employees engage in withdrawal behaviour. Actions that employees perform to avoid the work situation. May lead to quitting (1) affective commitment. Desire to stay at an organization due to a feeling of emotional attachment. Identify with the organization and accept its goals/values: stay because you want to, ex. A social network diagram the erosion model- employees with fewer bods will be most likely quit the organization the social influence model- employees who have direct linkages with leavers will be more likely to leave (2) continuance commitment: Weigh the cost to leave/benefit to stay tends to create a more passive form of loyalty, if staying because you have to increases by a feeling of embeddedness in the organization: ex.