Commitment Flashcards
• Investigates relationships between process and outcome of change and 2 different commitment responses, and tests for the moderating role of the magnitude of change at 2 different levels of analysis • a) change fairness - manner in which management treats and involves employees during change, b) change favorableness - degree to which the unit’s members see themselves as better off due to the change and c) locus and magnitude of change - a need to differentiate manifestations of the same change at different organizational levels• Surveys: organizational change & change practices (Org. Change) AND individual reactions & impact to own job (Personal Change)• Commit. to change & org. aren’t impacted equally by org. change• Individual reactions to change are based on different aspects of the change and its consequences (ooking at either the impact of change in work unit or individual is insufficient)• Highest level of commitment to change - high change at work unit level and good for work unit members but with low demands placed on the individual. Lowest when change was unfavorable to the work group members
Fedor et al (2006)
• Affective commitment (AC) - affective bond an individual feels toward the organization, characterized by identification and involvement with the organization as well as enjoyment in being a member of the organization • Continuance commitment (CC) - extent to which a person needs to stay with the organization, due to the costs of forgoing benefits associated with an individual’s investments in the organization • Normative commitment (NC) - individual’s bond with the organization due to an obligation on the part of the individual • Important to look at measurement of constructs, antecedents, interrelationships, and moderators to research AC-NC relationship• Focus on the nature of commitment, its components, and the relationships among them to elucidate the question of the role of NC in the org. commitment construct, as well as why AC and NC have been consistently related in the empirical literature, may be better put to rest • Theoretical piece reviewing findings and offering propositions
Bergman (2006)
