...Marisa Santana-Martins; M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández; Jose Luis Nascimento; Florence Stinglhamber Purpose This research aims to identify whether leaders' affective organizational commitment influences employees' affective commitment to both the leader and the organization. Additionally, the study...

.... Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were tested in a sample of 230 employees who completed an online survey at four time points over a three-year period. Linear mixed models analyses tested for significant changes to alignment, participation, learning culture, organisational commitment and engagement...

... in the prediction of job satisfaction and organizational affective commitment among a sample of traditional (in-house) and temporary agency workers. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested with multiple group analyses in a sample of 444 Portuguese call center workers: 215 were in-house...

...Tom Redman; Gregor Gall; Jack Fiorito Purpose The aim of this paper is to give a critique of the extant literature on union commitment and participation in order to develop remedies to identified weaknesses Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a critical assessment of extant literature...

...Tom Redman; Geoff Plimmer; Stephen Blumenfeld Purpose This paper aims to identify what workplace representative behaviours are most strongly associated with members’ commitment. This is increasingly important, as decentralised management practices have shifted management decisions to workplace...

...Hadyn Bennett Employee absence has been widely acknowledged in recent years to be a growing problem for organisations, including local government organisations. This paper investigates linkages between organisational commitment, absence management policies and absenteeism in local government from...

...Kara A. Arnold; Julian Barling; E. Kevin Kelloway This paper investigates the differential effects of transformational leadership and the “iron cage” on trust, commitment and team efficacy at the team level. Transformational leadership has been shown to have positive effects on trust, commitment...

...A.R. Elangovan This study addresses the confusion prevailing over the nature of the relationship between satisfaction and commitment in regard to employee turnover, and examines the causal pattern of relationships among stress, satisfaction, commitment, and turnover intentions by employing...

...Anna‐Maija Lämsä; Taina Savolainen This article explores the nature of managerial commitment to such strategic changes as downsizing and quality improvement. Its purpose is to develop a theoretical framework of managerial commitment. Findings from a qualitative study are presented resulting...

... the addition of employee benefits to their basic wages as more than 'just a salary', these schemes can help create greater staff commitment and change staff perceptions of their employer. "So, if remuneration packages are no longer seen as 'just a salary', then hopefully work will become more than 'just...

... with the organisation than their permanent counterparts. Temporary staff, it is argued, will have a transactional contract, with the emphasis upon the economic elements of the contract while permanent staff will have a more relational contract, involving commitment to the organisation, and an interest in a satisfying...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Directors Human resource management Commitment Directors slow to recognize the importance of good human resource practice Keywords: Directors, Human resource management, Commitment A recent survey conducted by the Institute of Directors...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Employee attitudes Commitment Sales Keywords Employee attitudes, Commitment, Sales A recent report published by the Institute for Employment Studies suggests that with more committed staff, companies could be boosting their sales by up...

... and suggestions on what to expect; what goals to foster; what responses, values, attitudes and relationships to encourage; what problems to anticipate, and how to address them. Commitment Corporate culture Organizational change Stability, loyalty, lifetime employment ‐ the days of the gold watch...

... making the CAP uniform more distinct from the USAF uniform. CAP members, who affirmed that they were to be motivated solely by a desire to perform CAP’s mission, and not motivated by wearing USAF uniforms, quit and withdrew commitment. This participant observation ethnography studies how USAF’s...

...Philip H. Siegel; Seleshi Sisaye Addresses the relationship between organizational identification and organizational commitment. Tested the following three hypotheses in relation to professional accountants: self‐image congruence has a direct effect on organizational identification; organizational...

... and the need for effective leadership. Argues that effective strategic change requires approaches to leadership that are more likely to enhance workplace change through employee participation, motivation and commitment. To meet new challenges, business organizations must develop attributes of corporate culture...

... graduates at different stages of early career,are examined. The graduate experiences which most powerfully influence outcomes such as organizational commitment are identified. The impact of the project on the management of graduate development is discussed. What happens to graduates in their early career...

... positive organizational commitment from the individual and also higher job satisfaction. Suggests,therefore, that managers should made as much as they possibly can. Four‐fifths of the sample were male with an average age of 41 years. The level of education of the sample varied with approximately one...