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Securely Attached, Strongly Committed? On the Influence of Attachment Orientations on Organizational Commitment

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  • Claudia Schusterschitz
  • Willi Geser
  • Elisabeth Noehammer
  • Harald Stummer

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The paper at hand is the first that explores the notion of attachment orientations, i.e. attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, influencing individual attachment towards an organization, i.e. employees’ affective, normative and continuance commitment. Findings of a questionnaire survey reveal positive correlations of attachment anxiety with affective, normative and continuance commitment. Attachment avoidance in contrast was found to contribute only to the prediction of affective commitment. Reconsidered, our results imply low affective, normative and continuance commitment for secure employees, i.e. for employees low in anxiety and low in avoidance. Implications of the findings, regarding the question of whether organizations should abstain from the employment of secure workers, are discussed.

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  • Claudia Schusterschitz & Willi Geser & Elisabeth Noehammer & Harald Stummer, 2011. "Securely Attached, Strongly Committed? On the Influence of Attachment Orientations on Organizational Commitment," Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, Rainer Hampp Verlag, vol. 25(4), pages 335-355.
    • Handle: RePEc:rai:zfpers:doi_10.1688/1862-0000_zfp_2011_04_schusterschitz
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    1. Talat Islam & Saima Ahmad & Ishfaq Ahmed, 2023. "Linking environment specific servant leadership with organizational environmental citizenship behavior: the roles of CSR and attachment anxiety," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 855-879, April.
    2. Luu, Tuan, 2019. "Relationship between benevolent leadership and the well-being among employees with disabilities," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 282-294.
    3. Ramamoorthy Nagarajan & Stringer Donna, 2017. "Equity versus equality norms of justice and organisational commitment: the moderating role of gender," The Irish Journal of Management, Sciendo, vol. 36(3), pages 206-220.

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    Keywords

    attachment anxiety; attachment avoidance; affective commitment; normative commitment; continuance commitment;
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    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General

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