This activity is important because higher continuance commitment makes it more likely that employees will stay at their organization. Managers can build continuance commitment with embeddedness by increasing employees’ links with their organization and community, their sense of fit with the organization and community, and what they would sacrifice if they made a job change. The goal of this exercise is to demonstrate your understanding by matching methods for increasing embeddedness with the type of embeddedness. Read each employee quote and then match it to the type of embeddedness it describes.

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.