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E.2.2 Organisational commitment



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E.2.2 Organisational commitment
Organisational commitment is the relative strength of an employee’s identification with an involvement in an organisation Mowday (1979). Organisational commitment is the emotional attachment people have toward the company they work for. A highly committed employee is one who accepts and believes in the company’s values, and is willing to putout efforts to meet the company’s goals, and has a strong desire to remain with the company.





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E.2.2a Features of organisational commitment
The key feature of organisational commitment include The employee’s desire to stay with the organisation How much the employee believes in and accepts the organisations goals The employee’s willingness to exert effort on behalf of an organisation
E.2.2b Forms of Organisational Commitment
According to Allen and Meyer (1990), there are three (3) forms of commitment a)
Affective commitment personal attachment to an organisation b) Continuance commitment the costs and risks of leaving. Our investment in the organisation
(c)
Normative commitment the moral dimension loyalty to the employer.


E.3
Attitudes that are Important in Workplaces
It may seem as if skills and experience are the most important characteristics of an employee, but attitude plays just as big of a role. After all, what good are great professional skills without the right attitude to see it all through Attitude can influence behaviour and vice versa, they can also be mutually influential towards each other at the same time, so if one is high the other will be, likewise the other way round too. Other factors can influence them both whilst their influence on each other remains consistent and their influence on each other can change as a result of other factors. The following workplace attitude will draw your professional skills and experience to the good of the organisation i)

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