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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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Purpose – The goal of this study is to examine the moderating effect of two group characteristics, group size and group … cohesiveness, on the relationship between organizational commitment and transformational leadership, on the one hand, and in … size and cohesiveness have an important joint effect. Cohesiveness differed in its effects on how commitment and …
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of the shift towards high performance, high commitment HRM in both countries.  …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 …
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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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employee loyalty or commitment, a link that was always tenuous, is extremely fragile.  …
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the differential role that organizational support (perceived organizational … 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 …
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Based on empirical work from two major UK organizations. British Airways and BT (formerly British Telecom), both of whom have, after privatization, engaged in large‐scale culture change programmes. Both organizations have made substantial job cuts and (at the time of writing in May 1991) both...
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