A study of the relationships between volunteers' commitments to organizations and beneficiaries and turnover intentions

Patrick Valéau (), Karim Mignonac (), Christian Vandenberghe and Anne-Laure Gatignon Turnau ()
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Patrick Valéau: CEMOI - Centre d'Économie et de Management de l'Océan Indien - UR - Université de La Réunion
Karim Mignonac: CRM - Centre de Recherche en Management - UT Capitole - Université Toulouse Capitole - UT - Université de Toulouse - IAE - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Toulouse - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Christian Vandenberghe: HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal
Anne-Laure Gatignon Turnau: IUT Paul Sabatier - Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Paul Sabatier - UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT - Université de Toulouse

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Abstract: We used the three-component model of commitment that includes affective, normative, and continuance components to study the commitment of volunteer workers to their organisation and beneficiaries, and examine how these components independently and jointly related to volunteers' turnover intentions. Based on a sample of 343 volunteers from various organisations, we found affective and normative organisational commitment and normative commitment to beneficiaries to be uniquely related to turnover intentions. In addition, we found two statistically significant cross-foci interactions among the components. Namely, affective and normative commitments to beneficiaries were more strongly related to turnover intentions when affective organisational commitment was low. The implications of these findings for future research on volunteers' multiple commitments are discussed.

Keywords: *Employee Turnover; *Organizational Commitment; *Volunteers; Commitment; Employee Attitudes; Intention; Organizations; Revue AERES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 2013, 45 (2), pp.85--95. ⟨10.1037/a0027620⟩

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DOI: 10.1037/a0027620

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