Exam 3: Organizational Commitment

Sometimes neglect can be even more costly than exit because it is not as readily noticed.

_______ exists when there is a sense that staying at a firm is the "right" or "moral" thing to do.

Voice is defined as a passive,constructive response that maintains public support for the situation while the individual privately hopes for improvement.

Amber's reaction can be described as which of these?

The factors that increase normative commitment include:

The most immediate cause of all forms of employee withdrawal behaviour is:

The components of embeddedness include all of the following,except?

Withdrawal comes in two forms:

An active,destructive response by which an individual either ends or restricts organizational membership is referred to as:

When various withdrawal behaviours positively correlate with one another and the withdrawal behaviours tend to have a causal sequence,that description summarizes the _______ model of withdrawal.

Hubert Hall has been a loyal employee for the past 25 years at XYZ International yet has not been enjoying his job as much in the past two years.Hubert feels obligated to stay with XYZ until he retires in five years because the company has invested a lot of time and money in him.This is an example of:

The decline in interest and effort that Fred is experiencing in his job is referred to as:

Research suggests that employees tend to view their employment relationships in quasi-contractual terms.Identify and describe the three categories of contracts that are perceived by employees.

All the following are ways for organizations to foster a sense of commitment among employees,except?

Continuance commitment is defined as a desire to remain a member of an organization due to a feeling of obligation.

Which of these is not a form of psychological withdrawal?

Employees that respond to negative events with _____,have lost interest in their jobs and exert less effort.

Perceived organizational support has been shown to be important to employees.For each of the categories of organizational commitment,describe what an organization can do to demonstrate that form of commitment to increase employees' perceived organizational support.

Employees with fewer or weaker bonds to others in the workplace are likely to feel less emotional attachment to work colleagues making it easier to decide to leave an organization.This is the _______ model.

The progression model of withdrawal argues that the various withdrawal behaviours are correlated with one another,occur for different reasons,and fulfill different needs on the part of employees.