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employee loyalty or commitment, a link that was always tenuous, is extremely fragile.  … provision in fostering employee loyalty to an organisation, this paper reports the findings of a research study that …
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Reports results of research into commitment levels and absenteeism among employees at Westrail, the Western Australian … interest in severance benefits. Absenteeism rates correlated negatively with measures of commitment to work itself and to the … organisation. Seems likely that lower commitment to work leads to higher absenteeism. Commitment measures correlated with attitudes …
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accept criticism, and rate courtesy, social approval and loyalty more favourably than British respondents. Existing scales of … approval, partly confirmed the hypothesis for loyalty and the results for courtesy and acceptance of criticism were not proven …
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There is little research on managers’ meanings of commitment. Unprompted responses from interviews with 37 senior … commitment as desiring to remain in, and identification with, the organisation, towards a meaning putting more emphasis on a … organisation and individual. Women responded with less visible meanings of commitment. When engineers are assessed on commitment …
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This study investigates the role of various dimensions of organizational commitment and job satisfaction in predicting … toward organizational change increase with the increase in affective commitment, and that continuance commitment (low … affective commitment mediates the influences of satisfaction with working conditions, pay, supervision and security on both …
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The paper is based on a five year, UMIST‐Institute of Management study into the changing nature of the quality of working life and seeks to uncover differences in the incidence and impact of organizational change on the perceptions and experiences of managers in the public sector, the private...
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commitment and job satisfaction. It uses a sample of 425 Muslim employees in several organizations in the United Arab Emirates … (UAE). The empirical results indicate that the Islamic work ethic directly affects both organizational commitment and job … does not moderate the relationship between the Islamic work ethic and both organizational commitment and job satisfaction …
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This paper explores a phenomenon known as entrapment. Entrapment refers to situations where people become “locked into” decisions through the passage of time as distinct from actively re‐investing in failing projects. The present study examines Becker’s so called “side bets” theory...
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This article uses discourse theory to examine the rhetoric of human resource management (HRM) in shaping organisational change. Built on the assumptions that people actively construct their “organisational world” and that language is central to these processes of social construction, HRM is...
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and normative commitment towards their work organization. Design/methodology/approach – Using a sample of 251 new hires, a … support did not add incrementally to the prediction of normative commitment when the other two support sources entered the … relationship as well as its role as a moderator in the colleague support‐affective commitment relationship. Specifically, high POS …
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