Abstract

FALCAO SCHEIBLE, Alba Couto  and  BITTENCOURT BASTOS, António Virgílio. Analyzing the Impacts of Commitment and Entrenchment on Behavioral Intentions. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2014, vol.13, n.1, pp.109-119. ISSN 1657-9267.

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.

Keywords : commitment; entrenchment; intentions; organizational psychology; work; psychology; compromiso; afianciamiento; intenciones; psicología de las organizaciones; trabajo; psicología.

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