Analyzing the impacts of commitment and entrenchment on behavioral intentions

Abstract

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 organizationalaffective 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 isa predecessor of the intentions to stay, defend, and exert extra effort, while entrenchment displayed no relevant relationships with them.