Taylor, an employee of Datacell Corp., is dissatisfied with his job as a software engineer. He finds the work monotonous and tiresome. However, he is determined to stay with the organization because he fears that other organizations might not pay him a salary as high as his current salary. Moreover, DataCell Corp. also offers healthcare and retirement benefits to its employees. In the context of organizational psychology, Taylor is displaying a sense of ________ toward his organization.

This is simply known as is need or desire of an employee to want to remain a member of the organization. Organizational commitment acts on whether an employee stays a member of the organization that is retained or leaves to pursue another job that is turns over.

The three types of organizational commitment. They include:

1. Continuance commitment

2. Normative commitment

3. Affective commitment

Continuance commitment

This is simply defined as one's (employee) desire to remain a member of an organization due to the fact that one is aware of the costs associated with leaving that particular job. This type of commitment is said to exists when there is a profit associated with staying and a cost associated with leaving an organization. It simply involves staying with an organization because you need to.