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Organizational commitment means “the willingness of social actors to invest energy and loyalty in social systems, the attachment of personality systems to social relations which are seen as self-expressive” (Kanter 1868, p. 499).
Affective commitment refers to an employee’s emotional attachment to, integration with, and involvement with his/her organization (Bryant et al. 2007).
Continuance commitment refers to an employee’s perceived costs of leaving his/her organization (Bryant et al. 2007).
Normative commitment reflects an employee’s moral obligation to stay in his/her organization (Bryant et al. 2007).
Organizational Commitment: History and Trends
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Mousa, M. (2021). Organizational Commitment in the Public Context: A Voice from a Parallel Planet. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4227-1
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