AFM280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Absenteeism, Embeddedness, Social Influence

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Accounting & Financial Management
• Course: AFM280
• Professor: D'arcy Delamere

Document Summary

Organizational commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization. Affective commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of emotional attachment. Continuance commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization due to an awareness of the costs of leaving. Normative commitment: an employee"s desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of obligation. Withdrawal behavior: employee actions that are intended to avoid work situations. Focus of commitment: the people, places, and things that inspire a desire to remain a member of an organization. Erosion model: a model that suggests that employees with fewer bonds with co-workers are more likel y to quit the organization. Social influence model: a model that suggests that employees with direct linkages to co-workers who leave the organization will themselves be more likely to leave.