This study was an attempt to add to the existing research base, as well as fill in a gap in the literature with regard to speech language pathologists in public educational organizations in Texas. Variables explored in this study were recruitment, retention, career commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job overload, and turnover intent. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between recruitment, retention, career commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, job overload, and the turnover intent of speech language pathologists in Texas. Additionally, this study sought to identify those factors that most influence the recruitment and retention of speech pathologists. A random sample of 500 speech pathologists was identified for participation in this study. Responses were elicited via Questionnaires, and consisted of eight sections: (a) demographic information and (b) seven previously validated and reliable instruments related to the variables identified in this study. All instruments were deemed appropriate for use in this study and were set to a six-point Likert scale. The data revealed that job responsibility, pay level, size of caseload, needing a job, and administrative support played a major role in the recruitment of speech language pathologists. On the other hand, job satisfaction, caseload, and job security were found to be the most influential in the retention of speech language pathologists. Furthermore, recruitment, retention, and job overload were found to have a significant positive relationship to turnover intent in speech pathologists, whereas career commitment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction were found to have a significant negative relationship to turnover intent.

The associations among work values, organizational commitment, and perceptions of organizational politics, as well as mediator of the perceptions of organizational politics on the relation between work values and organizational commitment are discussed. Cross-sectional design with questionnaire, containing Survey of Work values, Orgamizational Commitment Questionnaire, and Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale, administered to 1000 hospital employees were used in current study. Response rate was 79.4%. Multivariate analytical results indicated negative relations between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational commitment, some of work values correlated with organizational commitment and perceptions of organizational politics. Effect of upward striving, one dimension of work values, on organizational commitment may be through perceptions of organizational politics. Explanations and implications are discussed.

The major purpose of this research is to use three mental factors of job satisfaction¡Bjob stress and organizational commitment for examining the existence of mediating effects in between perceptions of organization politics and job performance. Reviewing many articles in the field of organizational behavior, the interior employees¡¦ job performance were mostly contributed to individual differences as capabilities and personalities, however, such variables could only explain partial differences in job performance. Except of individuals, the influence on job performance may include organizational structure, management system even though various outside or other factors. Witt found negative relationship between perceptions of organization politics and job performance in 1998, such finding broke the researchers¡¦ limits of traditional view of combining individual capabilities or characters, searched out the new influence factor, and added new explanation of variables on job performance of organization interior employees. In the field of perceptions of organization politics, researchers kept focus on the definition of perceptions of organization politics and the relation among variables, less development in mediating effects. Therefore, this research was structured by aforesaid and Adkins¡¦s definition in 1995 as well as relevant articles, the three pertaining to psychological level variables, job satisfaction¡Bjob stress and organizational commitment, have mediating effects between perceptions of organization politics and job performance. By finding the influence factor, for reducing the negative effects on job performance caused by perceptions of organization politics, hopping go further of submitting strategic human resource management to boost contribution on organizational performance This research was proceeded by questionnaire to the sampling objects of Taiwan enterprises. The results indicated job satisfaction¡Bjob stress and organization commitment have partial significant mediating effect on the relationship between job performance and¡¥Distance of policy and practice¡¦, the format of perceptions of organization politics.

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory disease (SARS) in Taiwan on April, 2003 caused the life of Taiwanese out of order and panic. The health-care workers feel anxious and panic. The downside emotion even caused escape and mass resignations in hospitals. SARS tested how good every individual and the leadership of every hospital, area, and nation can handle crisis. Can hospitals offer enough support and a safe working environment to their health-care workers? Does the working attitude and willing of the health-care workers relate to how much awareness of the support from the hospitals? The purpose of the research is to find out during SARS, the working stress for anesthetists, the relation of support from the hospitals and the working attitude and willing to take care of patients from the anesthetists. Hope this can be a reference to management level in medical care organization The conclusion of this research: 1.The management level in hospitals should apply different HR strategies to different health-care workers as every health-care worker has different personality. The difference makes his commitment to organization, profession and willing to take care of patients different. 2.During SARS, the awareness from anesthetists to organization support includes four sides. They are safe support, emotional support, fair support and respect support. The four sides have different affects on anesthetists¡¦ working attitude. To organization commitment, the most important is safe support and then ¡K. Support, fair support and respect support. 3. If health-care workers can feel enough support from the organization, they will feedback their commitment to the organization and profession. Therefore, except giving the assistance to reduce working stress, the management level should provide enough safe support, emotional support, fair support and respect support. 4. Working stress affects health-care workers¡¦ willing to stay on duty and take care of SARS patients. Therefore, to assist health-care workers in reducing fear and uncertainty of SARS, increasing the ability to adjust stress by training of SARS can reduce the intention of quit and job changing. The assistance can encourage the health-care workers to be more aggressive on taking care of SARS patients.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship among educational reform stress, working values, and organizational commitment perceived by primary school teachers. First, relevant literature on educational reform, job stress of teachers, working values, and organizational commitment is collected, investigated, and analyzed. Next, the framework of the research is devised, the questionnaire is edited and pre-tested, and the research instrument of this study¡X¡§Questionnaire of Education Reforms and the Work Attitude of Primary School Teachers¡¨¡Xis developed accordingly. Then, primary school teachers of Kaohsiung county are used as research population, from which 810 teachers in 67 schools are randomly sampled as research subjects. 761 copies of the 810 questionnaires issued are returned, among which 750 copies are valid. The returning ratio is 92%. After questionnaires are collected, statistics methods, such as descriptive analysis, t-test, one way MANOVA, Pearson's product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and stepwise multiple regression, are used to analyze them. Finally, results of this study are discussed. Conclusions of this study are as follows: a) The greatest education reform pressure primary school teachers feel is ¡§workload¡¨, and the second greatest is ¡§curriculum reform¡¨. b) The highest value primary school teachers emphasize is ¡§organizational security¡¨, and the second greatest is ¡§interpersonal relationship¡¨. c) Primary school teachers are mostly content with organizational commitments which are ¡§a hard-working attitude¡¨, ¡§the inclination to keep the job¡¨ and ¡§organizational identity¡¨. d) Primary school teachers have different educational reform pressure, work values, and organizational commitment due to their different backgrounds. e) The less educational reform pressure primary school teachers feel the higher commitment they make. f) The higher work value primary school teachers emphasize the higher commitment they make. g) For most of primary school teachers, education reform pressure and organizational commitment are related in a negative way. h) For primary school teachers, work values and organizational commitment are related in a positive way. i) The relationship among education reform pressure, work values and organizational commitment of primary school teachers. j) Education reform pressure and work values can predict organizational commitment. And interpersonal relationship is a major predicator variable. According to the above conclusions, this study brings about the following results: A. For educational administrative organization: a) Education reform should include complete complementary packages, increase the number of teachers to reduce teacher's workload. b) Raise work values and strengthen teacher's organizational commitment. c) Accredit and support elementary teachers¡¦ highly positive hard-working attitude. B. For School Administrative: a) Encourage elementary teachers attending educational workshops, acquiring future knowledge, and adapting changes. b) Set reasonable work goals, improve the work environment and reduce teacher's work pressure. c) Strengthen teacher's ability to manage pressure and improve their mental and physical health. d) Build excellent interpersonal relationship and interactive patterns. e) Establish a rotation mechanism of teacher's holding concurrent administrative jobs and increase the opportunities of teachers' participation in the decision-making of school affairs. f) Guide and show concerns for young and inexperienced teachers in order to solidify their sense of cohesion. C. For teachers: a) Actively attend workshops and conferences to increase professional knowledge. b) Seize any opportunities to participate in administrative work. c) Expand social circles to improve interpersonal interactive relationship. D. Submit suggestions to object of study, research methods, research variables, and research instruments respectively, as some people of interest might pursue the topic of this study further.

The human resources are the enterprise sharp weapons to make a profit with continue sustainable development. Generally speaking of business management, the excessively high turnover will drain the enterprise of its experienced labor force; will increase the expense of recruitment and training; will cause the staff that remain in office despondency, even can create the insufficient manpower phenomenon. But speaking of the Taiwan area large-scale traditional industry and the state-run enterprise units, the common ground is the turnover is excessively low, the organizational manpower structure gets older day by day, also its average age mostly surpasses above 40 years old. On the empirical verification, this study research by aims at the large-scale institution, attempts to understand senior staff's all kinds of working situation, including job stress, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and others construction surface, and probed the correlation among. Furthermore, this study to be aimed at individual characteristic and self report items probing into the influence of intention to early retirement and acceptances early retirement incentives, whether has reveals the significant difference or not? So as to aim at the reasons of the influence senior staff retires and acceptances of early retirement incentives as the further research. This study shows some results as follows¡GThe senior staff in the case company (1) Revealing the remarkable of correlation among the job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment. (2) Revealing the remarkable influence between early retirement and job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, as well as some self report items. (3) Revealing the remarkable of difference between parts of the individual variables to job stress, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment to intention to early retirement as well as acceptances of early retirement incentives and so on.

This study involved 596 administrative staff members in nine private colleges that had been reorganized into universities of technology in Taiwan by February, 2004. In the study, we looked into the staff members¡¦ perceptions of organizational change, job stress and organizational commitment, as well as the interrelationship among them. The findings indicate that those administrative staff members have mid-to-high-level recognition of the inevitability of the organizational change and its resulting benefits. They have medium-level awareness of their voices being ignored by the school and a lack of communication. Nevertheless, maladaptive problems in jobs and positions were seldom mentioned. The major job stress is from contingency arrangements, urgent issues or unscheduled assignments. The staff hold a conservative attitude toward organizational commitment, without showing stable or strong identification with the school. Factor analysis, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and hierarchical multiple regression were used to examine the significant differences among variables. Major findings through further correlation analysis include: (1) organizational commitment has a positive correlation with the staff¡¦s perceptions of organizational change, and a negative correlation with their recognition of the necessary sacrifice of the interests resulting from the reorganization, (2) the higher level the recognition of organizational reform, the more job stress; and this job stress has significantly high negative correlation with organizational commitment, and (3) those administrative staff who are relatively young, unmarried, less experienced in working, and received fewer years of education tend to be better in recognizing organizational reform and job stress, but worse in organizational commitment. This finding shows that the recognition of organizational reform tends to negatively influence organizational commitment through job stress.

This study aims at developing and verifying the construct of work values, pay satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention in a Chinese context. Turnover has always been one of the tricky area for managers. In order to better manage of the turnover rate, this study focus on turnover intention and organizational commitment which are the best predictors to separation. Pay satisfaction and work values are employed as determinants to organizational commitment and turnover intention while organizational commitment is assumed as negatively related to turnover intention. The results indicate higher pay satisfaction contributes to higher organizational commitment and lower turnover intention. Also, people treasure work values more tend to have higher organizational commitment and lower turnover intention. Pay satisfaction in the construct serve as the mediator between work values and turnover intention. Besides, employees with senior high school degree treasure ¡§job independency¡¨, and ¡§job content¡¨ less than higher educated people. Management demonstrate higher pay satisfaction and likely due to more opportunity cost they show higher continuance commitment respectively.

In recent years, the working environment and structure have changed as a result of environmental changes and societal improvement. The job market in the past that contained mainly male no longer exists. More and more women join the working space to compete with men. Because there are more opportunities for women to participate in jobs, there are relatively more opportunities for men to participate in family chores. Therefore, both men and women must face problems in work-family conflict. The research done by Frone, Russell & Copper (1992) showed that work-family conflict not only causes negative psychological and physical effects on individuals, but also affects work negatively. Accordingly, in order for a company to retain excellent staff and keep their competitivity, it needs to consider how to help the staff decrease work-family conflict. Among the questions to consider is whether the work-family policy helps the staff decrease work-family conflict and improve their organizational commitment. This study is to investigate whether the implementation of work-family policy helps the staff decrease work-family conflict and improve their organizational commitment. It also studies whether the staff¡¦s work-family conflict and organizational commitment are negatively correlated; whether providing work-family policy affects the staff¡¦s organizational commitment due to the mediating effect of work-family conflict. This research surveyed 3 major sectors including the top 50 companies from the top one thousand manufacturers, top five-hundred service companies and top one hundred finance companies, according to the investigation of the 2005 CommonWealth Magazine. Totally 1600 copies of the questionnaire were released; 296 valid copies were returned with a valid sample return rate of 18.5%. Through statistical analyses such as t-test analysis of independence, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson¡¦s product moment correlation and multiple regression, the results of the investigation demonstrate the following important findings: 1.There exist some significantly different cognitions amongst different people and industries on work-family policy, work-family conflict and organizational commitment. 2.Work-family policy and work-family conflict are partially negatively correlated. 3.Work-family conflict and organizational commitment are partially negatively correlated. 4.Work-family policy and organizational commitment are partially positively correlated. 5.Work-family conflict was found to have partially mediating effects between work-family policy and organizational commitment.

With the transformation of industrial structure and the structure of labor force, service industry has become increasingly important in global economy. Service quality is a critical competitive edge for service organizations. Front-line employees play a key role in directly facing and delivering services to the customers, often with intentional management of emotions. When emotions are turned from private behaviors to commodity, the organizations have to find out the way to utilize and manage employees¡¦ emotions in order to achieve desirable performance. The current research aims to examine the relationship among emotional labor, locus of control, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of the employees in hospitality organizations, and designates job satisfaction as the mediating factor between emotional labor and organizational commitment. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to employees selected from hotels across the island. 334 questionnaires are collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlations and multiple regressions. Important findings include: 1. Employees with internal locus of control have higher organizational commitment and job satisfaction. 2. The more contact and interactions between the employees and customers, the higher emotional labor the employees perceive. 3. There¡¦s a partial mediating effect for job satisfaction on the relationship between emotional labor and organizational commitment.