Cette thèse vise à étudier conjointement deux thèmes de recherche habituellement traités séparés par la littérature académique : les caractéristiques des directeurs généraux et l'engagement des employés au travail. La problématique peut se définir ainsi : quel est l'impact des caractéristiques des dirigeants sur leur engagement au travail ? ou autrement dit, comment les caractéristiques managériales influencent la nature et le degré d'implication des dirigeants au travail? Les dirigeants dans notre travail de recherche seront les dirigeants des banques au Liban : on va essayer de leur créer une typologie. / Organizational commitment has been studied comprehensively along with varied professional groups. The concept that commitment is essential for the apprehension of organizational and professional goals mainly in the Banking organizations has remained unexploited by researchers. The study of employee commitment should be important to Banking organizations receiving large amounts of community savings and playing an important role in the development of the economical sector as a whole.No previous studies have tackled the Lebanese bank managers’ subject in relevance to their organizational commitment and its relation with their biographical traits and their Job perforamance; therefore the study of organizational commitment will particularly be relevant to Lebanese bank managers, as those represent the leading power for the future of the Lebanese banking sector.

The factors associated with employees' work related attitudes and cognitions were examined. A sample of employees from Community Living Trust (CLT), an organisation within the disability support worker industry, completed a questionnaire that included several measures: supervisor and colleague support, role conflict, role ambiguity and role overload, time-based, strain-based and behaviour-based work-to-family/family-to-work conflict, organisational commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions. The purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which supervisor and colleague support contributed to a reduction in role conflict, role ambiguity and role overload. In addition, the relationship between support and work-to-family/family-to-work conflict were also explored. Finally, the organisational outcomes, in particular organisational commitment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions, were examined. It was found that supervisor and colleague support did, in some cases, moderated the relationship between role stressors, conflict and job satisfaction / organisational commitment. It was also found that job satisfaction and affective commitment mediated the relationship between the role stressors, WF strain-based conflict and turnover intentions. The major implications from this research are that human resource initiatives should be developed that aims to identify the support needs employees may have, in order to increase levels of job satisfaction and organisational commitment and decrease levels of turnover intentions. The final chapter of this research explored the practical implications to the organisation, employees and the need for future research.

This research explores the relationship between sense of coherence, work engagement and organisational commitment in an automotive development institution in South Africa. The study was conducted through quantitative research. The study used the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) to measure sense of coherence, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) to measure work engagement and the Organisational Commitment Scale (OCS) to measure organisational commitment. A biographical questionnaire was also used. The questionnaires were administered to a sample of 46 employees, 37 of whom were based in the company’s Pretoria office and nine at their Eastern Cape office. In view of the fact that the sample was small, 100 % of the population was included in the study. A theoretical relationship between the constructs was determined and an empirical study provided evidence of the degree of relationship that existed between them. The results reveal significant relationships to exist between some sub-scales, however, statistical significance could not be reached for some correlations. / Psychology / M. Admin. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

The objective of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived career mobility, career mobility preference, job satisfaction and organisational commitment. A secondary objective was to determine whether various age, gender, tenure, marital status and race groups differed significantly regarding their perceived career mobility, career mobility preference, job satisfaction and organisational commitment. A perceived career mobility scale and career mobility preference scale, the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (short form) and the Organisational Commitment Scale, were applied to a non-probability convenience sample consisting of 82 South African accountants, auditors and financial staff members. Significant relationships were observed between the variables. Significant differences were found between age and race groups‟ perceived career mobility, gender and tenure groups‟ career mobility preference, and age and tenure groups‟ organisational commitment. The findings contribute valuable new knowledge that may be used to inform retention practices in the financial sector. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial & Organisational Psychology)

Summaries in English and Afrikaans / Text in Afrikaans / Die doel van hierdie verkennende studie was om ondersoek in te stel na die prestasiewaardes onderliggend aan Affektiewe, Kontinulteits- en Normatiewe organisasieverbintenis van werknemers binne die motorywerheid in Suid-Afrika. 'n Steekproef van 113 werknemers is uit verskillende motorhandelaars geselekteer. Daarna is ondersoek ingestel na watter prestasiewaardes betekenisvolle voorspellers van organisasieverbintenis is. Daar is bevind dat die prestasiewaardes mededinging en materiele welvaart betekenisvolle voorspellers van affektiewe organisasieverbintenis is, en dat die prestasiewaardes materiele welvaart en strewe na uitmuntendheid betekenisvolle voorspellers van kontinuiteitsorganisasieverbintenis is, maar dat geeneen van die prestasiewaardes wat huidig wereldwyd erken word, betekenisvolle voorspellers van normatiewe organisasieverbintenis in die motomywerheid is nie. Dit het verreikende irnplikasies vir die Suid-Afrikaanse motorhandelaar. Hierbenewens is dit ook duidelik uit die navorsingsresultate dat die prestasiewaardes mededinging, materiele welvaart en strewe na uitmuntendheid hulself daartoe leen om op 'n geintegreerde wyse deur bestuur van motorhandelaars aangewend te word ten einde hul kumulatiewe invloed op organisasieverbintenis optimaal te kan benut. / The objective of this exploratory study was to investigate the performance values subjacent to affective, continuity and normative organisation commitment of employees in the motor industry in South Africa. A sample of 113 employees was selected from different dealerships. Thereafter an investigation was done to establish which performance values were meaningful predictors of organisation commitment. It was found that the performance values competition and material gain were meaningful predictors of affective organisation commitment, and the performance values material gain and excellence were meaningful predictors of continuity organisation commitment, but that none of the performance values which are contemporarily recognised world-wide were meaningful predictors of normative organisation commitment. This has far-reaching implications for South African motor dealers. It was also apparent from the results that the performance values competition, material gain and excellence can be utilized in an integrated way by management of motor dealers in order to ensure optimal utilization of their cumulative impact on organisation commitment. / Industrial psychology / M.Com. (Industrial Psychology)

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Dentro dessa tendência mais ampla, estudos têm sido voltados para a revisão do modelo tridimensional do comprometimento proposto por J. Meyer e N. Allen, guiados pelo argumento de que esse modelo reúne mais de um tipo de vínculo. Um dos principais pontos de análise tem sido a pertinência da dimensão de continuação, que apresenta base teórica e comportamento semelhante ao entrincheiramento organizacional. A presente pesquisa buscou percorrer um caminho metodológico que possibilitasse alcançar maiores compreensão, precisão e delimitação desses construtos. Após a revisão e refinamento das medidas do entrincheiramento organizacional e do comprometimento de continuação, foram comparados seus modelos explicativos. Os resultados apontaram para o mesmo padrão de relação quando confrontados os modelos do entrincheiramento e da base de continuação, evidenciando validade convergente. Confirmada a hipótese de que a base de continuação é sobreposta ao entrincheiramento, e de que ambos se distinguem do comprometimento afetivo, foram identificados e discriminados quatro grupos com diferentes níveis de entrincheiramento e comprometimento organizacional: sentinela de oportunidades (níveis medianos dos vínculos), transeunte organizacional (níveis baixos dos vínculos), cidadão livre (alto comprometimento e baixo entrincheiramento) e prisioneiro colaborativo (alto comprometimento e alto entrincheiramento). Desses grupos, foram extraídos casos representativos para uma investigação qualitativa da dinâmica dos vínculos com a organização, com base em narrativas profissionais. Após as análises detalhadas de cada caso, foi elaborado um modelo teórico que reúne variáveis pessoais e organizacionais, além das trajetórias percorridas, que contribuem para a formação das diferentes configurações de vínculo. Conclui-se que o entrincheiramento e o comprometimento são vínculos distintos, que podem ser combinados em diferentes padrões, construídos com base em características pessoais e em experiências vivenciadas na organização. Esses padrões demonstraram a capacidade de ampliar o poder explicativo dos vínculos em comparação ao seu tratamento isolado. Ao término deste estudo, verifica-se o alcance de maior delimitação teórica e empírica do comprometimento e do entrincheiramento. As estratégias metodológicas aqui empregadas poderão ser retomadas e incrementadas em estudos futuros, contribuindo para maiores avanços teóricos e aplicações práticas dos vínculos com a organização. On the current agenda of research on organizational attachments, efforts have been made in order to review concepts which have accumulated theoretical and empirical issues, therefore, threatening the validity of the results of several of these studies. Following a broader perspective, other studies have revised the three-dimensional model of commitment proposed by J. Meyer e N. Allen. These other studies have been guided by the argument that this model included more than one type of bond. One of the key issues is the pertinence of the continuance commitment, which is characterized by similar behavior and theoretical basis, if compared to organizational entrenchment. This research intended to follow a methodological pathway which would enable the researcher reach a better understanding, precision and delimitation of these constructs. After reviewing and refining the measures of organizational entrenchment and continuation commitment, their explanatory models were compared. Results indicated the same pattern of relationship between the models of entrenchment and continuance dimension, evincing a convergent validity. Therefore, not only the hypothesis that the continuance dimension overlaps entrenchment was confirmed, but also that both are distinct from affective commitment. Four groups in different levels of entrenchment and organizational commitment were identified and discriminated: sentinel of opportunities (average levels of attachment), organizational passerby (low levels of attachment), free citizen (high level of commitment and low entrenchment) and collaborative prisoner (high level of commitment and high entrenchment). Representative cases were taken from these groups for a qualitative investigation of the dynamics of bonds in the organization, based on the narratives of the professionals. After a detailed analysis of each case, a theoretical model including personal and organizational variables, and also trajectories lived - which have contributed to the formation of different settings of bonds - was elaborated. It was concluded that entrenchment and commitment are distinct bonds, which can be combined in different patterns, built based on personal characteristics and experiences lived in the organization. These patterns demonstrate the ability of this study to increase the explanatory power of bonds, when compared to their isolated treatment. At the end of this study, the significance of a major theoretical and empirical delimitation of commitment and entrenchment was verified. The methodological strategies used here may be incorporated and improved in future studies, contributing to greater theoretical advances and practical applications of attachments in the organization.

A review of the literature reveals that organisational commitment is an outcome of organisational culture, when reviewing the definitions, theoretical development and models of these two concepts. The integration of organisational commitment with organisational culture indicates that there is a need for a scientific study to determine the relationship between these two variables. The empirical study involved the participation of 371 respondents in an organisation. A survey was conducted using the organisational commitment scale and the organisational culture questionnaire to determine the relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment. The results suggest that organisational culture has an effect on organisational commitment. Recommendations are made to successfully implement both organisational culture and organisational commitment change initiatives. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

A review of the literature reveals that organisational commitment is an outcome of organisational culture, when reviewing the definitions, theoretical development and models of these two concepts. The integration of organisational commitment with organisational culture indicates that there is a need for a scientific study to determine the relationship between these two variables. The empirical study involved the participation of 371 respondents in an organisation. A survey was conducted using the organisational commitment scale and the organisational culture questionnaire to determine the relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment. The results suggest that organisational culture has an effect on organisational commitment. Recommendations are made to successfully implement both organisational culture and organisational commitment change initiatives. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Corporate culture is believed to be integral to organisational success and sustainability. This research study was conducted according to a humanistic, positive psychology and an open systems paradigm in order to examine the theoretical relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment. The quantitative measuring instruments used for data collection were the Harrison and Stokes organisational culture questionnaire (OCQ) and Allen and Meyer’s organisational commitment scale (OCS). The empirical study involved respondents from a selected IT company in the KwaZulu-Natal region. This study revealed that there was no significant relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment. However, there was a difference between the existing and preferred power culture as well as the existing and preferred role culture dimensions. The main recommendation for this study is that the selected IT company should set stretch targets with a focus on common vision, purpose and company values, with a strong emphasis on creating meaningful rewards for top performers at both individual and team level. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Employee commitment is one of the most important aspects that help an organisation achieve its desired goals. This study investigates the possible effects of gender and age differences between managers and employees on organisational commitment among lower-level employees in selected factories in the Buffalo City Metropolitan area. The organisational commitment instrument used in this research is the Meyer and Allen (1997) organisational commitment questionnaire which contains 18 items (6 items for each scale: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment). For this purpose, a sample of 100 lower-level employees was used. The results indicated significant differences in the unexpected directions in affective commitment and continuance commitment between male employees supervised by male managers and male employees supervised by female managers; male employees were found to have higher levels of affective and continuance commitment when supervised by female managers. Female employees were found to have a higher level of normative commitment when supervised by male managers than when supervised by female managers which was also in the unexpected direction. In addition, the study showed surprising results in terms of the social or cultural hypothesis where employees supervised by male managers and older managers were not significantly different in organisational commitment to those managed by female and by younger or same-age managers.