Typology of Organisational Commitment
- 1 Graduate School of Management, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor Darulehsan, Malaysia
Abstract
This paper presents a contemporary review of the term commitment from an organisational perspective. The paper highlights the typology of employee commitment and of organisational commitment. Organisational commitment is a subset of employee commitment, which is comprised of work commitment, career commitment and organisational commitment. Organisational commitment, in turn, can be subdivided into affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. As a combination of both attitudinal and behavioural approaches, organisational commitment is defined as employees’ acceptance, involvement and dedication (AID) towards achieving the organisation’s goals. It is the willingness of employees to accept organisational values, and goals, and to work towards achieving these; to be fully involved, and participate, in all the activities, both work and non-work related, of the organisation; and to dedicate time, and effort, towards the betterment of the organisation.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2005.1078.1081
Copyright: © 2005 Rajendran Muthuveloo and Raduan Che Rose. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- employee commitment
- affective commitment
- continuance commitment
- normative commitment