The Importance Of Organizational Commitment

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Historically organisations strove to better productivity by bringing in technology and designing jobs in such a way that reduces the influence of personnel commitment on task outcomes (Harrison, 1987). Scientific management was prevalent in that employees were viewed as units of production or cost. Furthermore they made sure the little commitment needed from workers was achieved by way of multiple levels of employee supervision and stringent controls to minimise cost and maximise quality and output (Harrison, 1987). This is consistent with McGregor’s (1960) theory X, in that organisations considered workers to be lazy, dislike their work and in need of close supervision in order to be productive. Conversely the resultant boring and repetitive …show more content…

Amos and Weathinton, (2008) established that organisational commitment and job and organisation satisfaction were influenced by value congruence. Organisational commitment refers to the extent to which an employee would voluntarily remain with the organisation during good times and bad; and can be divided into three elements (Rashid, Sambasivan & Johari, 2003). Affective commitment as the name suggests is emotion based, and is the most desirable outcome in that an employee remains a part of the organisation because of their positive affect towards it (Rashid, Sambasivan & Johari, 2003). This means that the employee is satisfied with their job and with the organisation and that their values are congruent with those of the organisation (Rashid, Sambasivan & Johari, 2003). Employees with affective commitment have work engagement and love their job and enjoy working for the organisation (Rashid, Sambasivan & Johari, 2003). Organisational commitment has without fail been established to be related to crucial workplace behaviours such as citizenship behaviour (Abbott ,

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