Define organizational commitment and identify the two distinct types of organizational commitment.

Organizational commitment relates to feelings and beliefs about the employing organization as a whole. Researchers have identified two distinct types of organizational commitment: affective commitment and continuance commitment. Affective commitment exists when employees are happy to be members of the organization, they believe in and feel good about the organization and what it stands for, they are attached to the organization, and they intend to do what is good for the organization. Continuance commitment exists when employees are committed not so much because they want to be but because they have to be; that is, the costs of leaving the organization are too great.