SPECIFIC EMPLOYEE ATTITUDE: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

Definition (Robbins):

Organizational commitment is the degree to which an employee identifies with a particular organization and its goals and wishes to maintain membership in the organization.

Organizational commitment is defined as a state in which an employee identifies with a particular organization and its goals, and wishes to maintain membership in the organization.

Professor John Meyer at the University of Western Ontario and his colleagues have identified and developed measures for three types of commitment:

Affective commitment: An individual’s relationship to the organization: his or her emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in the organization.

Normative commitment:The obligation an individual feels to staying with the organization.

Continuance commitment: An individual’s calculation that it is in his or her best interest to stay with the organization based on the perceived costs of leaving the organization.