Abstract & Overview
The objective of this article is to investigate the relationships between the organizational commitment (RODRIGUES; BASTOS, 2011) and the employees' organizational entrenchment (RODRIGUES, 2009), human resources practices and agency-community models of people management (ROUSSEAU; ARTHUR, 1999) adopted. For this aim, 107 questionnaires were applied to an accounting firm located in the city of Salvador, Bahia. It´s a quantitative study based on descriptive and correlational analyzes. High scores were identified regarding commitment, people management practices and the agency-community people management model. It is also noticeable the incidence of entrenchment, but at lower levels when compared to the impairment. There is a high degree of correlation between commitment and entrenchment, people management practices and commitment, people management practices and entrenchment, community model and commitment and the agency-community model and entrenchment.