Components of Organizational Attachment and the Potential for Ambivalence

December 31, 2009

This study explores ambivalent organizational attachment as an asymmetry between the affective and cognitive components of organizational attachment. Participants responded to a number of affective and cognitive measures as they imagined how a fictitious employee described in the vignette would answer them. Results showed that affective attachment differed across the vignette groups except there were no differences between the ambivalent groups. These findings support the idea that affect may play a larger role in organizational attachment than does cognition.