Analyzing the Impacts of Commitment and Entrenchment on Behavioral Intentions

The lack of a universal definition for the organizational commitment brings difficulties for improving knowledge about the construct. Following the commitment construct revision proposed by Rodrigues (2009) through the separation of its continuance dimension - now referred to as organizational entrenchment, this paper analyzed the relationships between organizational affective commitment and entrenchment with behavioral intentions. The study was conducted in a Brazilian information technology company with the participation of 307 people. The results show that organizational entrenchment is indeed a different construct than the organizational affective commitment. It was found that affective commitment to the organization is a predecessor of the intentions to stay, defend, and exert extra effort, while entrenchment displayed no relevant relationships with them.

• Autores: Couto Falcão Scheible, Alba; Núcleo de Pós Graduação em Administração (NPGA) - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Bittencourt Bastos, Antônio Virgílio; Núcleo de Pós Graduação em Administração, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil). Email: [e-mail]. Address: Rua Macapá, 461, apt. 601, Ondina, 40170-150, Salvador-BA, Brasil. Phone: [phone]
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2013
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Repositorio: Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/32212
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/1521; http://hdl.handle.net/10554/32212
• Palabra clave: Commitment; Entrenchment; Intentions; Commitment, entrenchment, intentions
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional