ADM 2336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Organizational Commitment, Embeddedness

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

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Organizational commitment: a(cid:374) e(cid:373)ployee"s desire to re(cid:373)ai(cid:374) a (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er of the orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) Influences whether an employee stays at an organization (is retained) or leaves to purse another job (turns over) What happens if commitment is low: employees engage in withdrawal behaviour, actions that employees perform to avoid the work situation. Employee commitment and employee withdrawal: figure 3-1. Factors that foster commitment (activity: why would you stay working at bank instead of for competitor) Rewarding: other initiatives, recognition for working there, seniority. Continuance: raise or promotion, benefits, afraid of change, comfortable, opportunity for growth, prestige. What foes (cid:862)fo(cid:272)us of co(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) refer to: the people places and things that can inspire a desire to remain a member of an organization. Drivers or overall organization commitment: figure 3-2. Affective commitment: employees with a high sense of affective commitment: Continuance commitment (be careful of this as an employer: cost to leave/benefit to stay.