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Organizational commitment |
The desire on the part of an employee to remain a member of the organization. Inverse relationships to withdrawal behavior |
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Withdrawal behavior |
A set of actions that employees perform to avoid work situations - behaviors that may eventually culminate in quitting the organization. Inverse relationship to organizational commitment |
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Affective commitment |
A desire to remain a member of an organization due to an emotional attachment to, and involvement with, that organization.
"You stay because you want to" One of three types of organizational commitment |
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Continuance commitment |
A desire to remain a member of an organization because of an awareness of the costs associated with leaving.
"You stay because you need to" One of three types of organizational commitment |
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Normative commitment |
A desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of obligation. "You stay because you ought to" One of three types of organizational commitment. |
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Focus of commitment |
Term refers to the various people , places and things that can inspire a desire to remain with an organization. |
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Erosion model |
Erosion model suggests that employees with fewer bonds will be most likely to quit the organization. |
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Social influence model |
Suggests that employees who have direct linkages with "leavers" will themselves become likely to leave. In this way, reduction in affective commitment become contagious, spreading like a disease across the work unit. |
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Embeddedness |
Summaries employees links to their organization and community, their sense of fit with their organization and community and what they would need to sacrifice to change jobs. |
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Volunteering |
Another possible way to build an obligation-based sense of commitment is by becoming a particularly charitable organization. For example, many companies encourage employees to engage in volunteering - the giving of time and skills during a planned activity for a nonprofit or charity table group. |
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What are the four primary responses to negative events at work? |
Exit - attempt to remove yourself from the situation, either by being |
