This document discusses organizational commitment and the three-component model of commitment. It presents a case study of Susie, who has worked at Ace Enterprises for 12 years and feels committed to the organization. It defines the three components of commitment - affective, continuance, and normative commitment - and asks the reader to provide examples from Susie's experience. It also asks about the importance of organizational commitment for companies and what executives can do to encourage it.

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Organizational Commitment
Module 6: Week 6 – M6: Assignment 6
Baroness Thompson
PSY320 Industrial Organizational Psychology
Marian Orr
April 8, 2008
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Organizational Commitment
I believe Susie feel’s content as an employee of the Management team at Ace
Enterprises. Her feelings and work can have a positive impact on the company as a
whole. She is in Management.
The company can grow as with her help. She feels satisfied. Her family is looking
at her position from a different point of view. They can focus on relations among
affective, continuance, and normative commitment with her and her company. Her
organization needs her. She should ask her family to showdown her through out her day.
They may v view her position differently. This can include relations between the three
forms of commitment and variables identified as their antecedents, correlates, and
consequences. Susie’s friends and family can have a negative affect on Susie’s work
performance. Susie’s company is a very good company.
Three-Component Model consists of three forms of commitment. They are
related yet distinguishable from one another as well as from job satisfaction, job
involvement, and occupational commitment. Affective and continuance commitment
generally correlated as expected with their hypothesized antecedent variables; no unique
antecedents of normative commitment.
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All three forms of commitment related negatively to withdrawal cognition and
turnover, and affective commitment had the strongest and most favorable correlations
with organization-relevant (attendance, performance, and organizational citizenship
behavior) and employee-relevant (stress and work–family conflict) outcomes.
In closing, normative commitment is also associated with desirable outcomes,
albeit not as strongly. Continuance commitment was unrelated or related negatively, to
these outcomes. Comparisons of studies conducted within and outside North America
revealed considerable similarity yet suggested that more systematic primary research
concerning cultural differences is warranted.
Assignment 2: Organizational Commitment
Susie worked for Ace Enterprises for 12 years. She was always happy with her work and
felt like she belonged at Ace Enterprises and didn’t want to leave. Many of her friends
were her coworkers, and she played on the company softball team.
The management at Ace Enterprises helped Susie advance in her career. The organization
provided her with training opportunities and stood by her when she needed to take time
off to deal with personal problems.
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Recently, Susie’s friends and family suggested that a person with her credentials would
have plenty of job opportunities and that she should find a better paying, more interesting
job elsewhere. However, Susie told them she preferred to stay at Ace Enterprises. Not
only did she like her job and coworkers, but also felt that they gave her a lot in return for
her work.
Affective commitment
Continuance commitment
Normative commitment
What are your views of Susie’s commitment to her organization? Based on Susie’s
experiences at Ace Enterprises, provide examples of each of the three components of
organizational commitment.
Why should organizations be concerned with organizational commitment? What, if
anything, should executives do to encourage organizational commitment in their
employees?
Submit your response to the Faculty by Sunday, April 6, 2008. Your response should be
at least one page long. You can use the Organizational Commitment template to submit
the answer.
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Assignment 2 Grading Criteria and Respective Point Value Maximum
Points
Described their views of Susie’s commitment to her organization. 20
Provided examples of each component of organizational commitment, based on Susie’s
experiences at Ace Enterprises.
15
Stated with reasons why they think organizations should be concerned with
organizational commitment.
15
Described what executives should do to encourage organizational commitment in their
employees.
20
Total: 70
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