Affective and Continuing Commitment and Organizational Entrenchment: Establishing Empirical and Conceptual Limits

The three-dimensional model of organizational commitment presents conceptual and empirical problems, such as antagonistic behavior from the continuing basis when compared to the other ones. As part of an effort to improve the discriminant validity level of the construct, and, thus, increase its pred...

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Autores: Carvalho, Patrícia, Oliveira Alves, Flávia Jôse, Peixoto, Adriano de Lemos Alves, Bastos, Antônio Virgílio Bittencourt
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM)
Repositorio:Psicologia (Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.editorarevistas.mackenzie.br:article/2761
Acceso en línea:http://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/ptp/article/view/2761
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:commitment
entrenchment
model
validity
bond
compromiso
atrincheramiento
modelo
validad
vínculo
comprometimento
entrincheiramento
validade
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Sumario:The three-dimensional model of organizational commitment presents conceptual and empirical problems, such as antagonistic behavior from the continuing basis when compared to the other ones. As part of an effort to improve the discriminant validity level of the construct, and, thus, increase its predictive power, this paper examines the relevance of the three-dimensional model and, particularly, the persistence of the continuing basis in the construct. For that, correlation analyses between the Organizational Entrenchment and Organizational Commitment constructs and between them and different and consequent antecedents were carried out in a sample of 721 workers, aiming to determine the extent to which the affective and continuing bases of Organizational Commitment resemble or differ from Organizational Entrenchment. The results show a divergence between the continuing basis when compared to the affective basis, suggesting they are different links. At the same time, the similarity between the Organizational Entrenchment and the continuing basis suggests they are the same phenomenon.