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

Claudia Schusterschitz, Willi Geser, Elisabeth Noehammer and Harald Stummer

Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of Research in Human Resource Management, 2011, vol. 25, issue 4, 335-355

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: attachment anxiety; attachment avoidance; affective commitment; normative commitment; continuance commitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 J24 L20 M12 M50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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