[ANSWERS] Week 3 Quiz

The desire to remain a member of an organization due to emotional attachment to, and involvement with, that organization is called ________ commitment.

Which model of withdrawal argues that the various withdrawal behaviors are positively correlated—for example, the tendency to daydream or socialize leads to the tendency to come in late or take long breaks, which leads to the tendency to be absent or quit?

________ contracts reflect employees’ beliefs about what they owe the organization and what the organization owes them.

Maddie has been working as the creative head at Juno Designs for the past 25 years. Although she likes her job, she has begun to feel like she is in a creative slump and has been considering leaving to start her own company. Maddie will be eligible for retirement in five years. After discussing it with her husband, she decides that leaving now would be a mistake. After she retires, she will reconsider the idea of starting her own company. This is an example of ________ commitment.

The term “focus of commitment” can refer to each of the following, except

Since Ginny’s company switched management, they have stopped doing many of the fun, team-building activities they used to do, and the workplace culture has changed for the worse. A few weeks ago, Ginny’s friend Surya quit, and now Ginny and her coworker Tom are thinking of quitting too. This shows the power of ________ in affecting employee attitudes.

The factors that increase normative commitment include

An active, constructive response to a negative work situation in which individuals attempt to improve the situation, is referred to as

Organizational commitment should decrease the likelihood that an individual will respond to a negative work event with