ADMS 2400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Job Performance, Embeddedness

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2400
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Being able to keep those well-qualified employees for long periods of time in order for the organization to gain any benefits from their efforts. Organizational commitment: desire on the part of an employee to remain a member of the organization. Influences whether an employee stays a member of the organization or leaves to pursue another job. Three forms of commitment: affective commitment: (emotional reasons) a desire to remain a member of an organization due to an emotional attachment to and involvement with the organization. Employees who feel a sense of affective commitment identify with the organization, accept that organization"s goals and values and are more willing to exert extra effort on behalf of the organization. Engage in more interpersonal and organizational citizenship behaviours. Strong correlation between affective commitment and citizenship behaviour. The erosion model employees with fewer bonds with co- workers are more likely to quit the organization.