In the present study, organizational commitment&lsquo / s relationship with a number of antecedents and consequences were examined. In more detail, firstly the effects of job characteristics (i.e., job variety, promotional opportunity, organizational fairness, and perceived organizational support) on three dimensions of organizational commitment namely affective, normative, and continuance commitment were examined. Secondly, how these three dimensions of organizational commitment predict two dimensions of performance (i.e., task and contextual performance) and turnover intentions were examined. With these purposes, a pilot study was conducted with the participation of 45 employees and then in the main study questionnaires were administered to a sample of 175 employees working in different public organizations. According to the results of the study, job characteristics significantly and positively predicted both affective and normative commitment in addition to overall commitment but they were not significant predictors of continuance commitment. In more detail, affective commitment was predicted by job variety, promotional opportunity and perceived organizational support while normative commitment was predicted by job variety and perceived organizational support. The results of the mediation analysis revealed that perceived organizational support partially mediated the organizational fairness - affective organizational commitment relationship. Among three dimensions of commitment, affective and normative commitment were found to significantly and negatively predict turnover intentions of employees. On the other hand, none of the three dimensions significantly predicted task performance when self ratings were used but affective and normative commitment significantly influenced self reported contextual performance. However, three dimensions of commitment were not significant predictors of task, contextual or overall performance rated by supervisors. The results of the study, its implications, limitations and directions were future research were discussed in more detail.

Recently, the market of mutual fund is getting larger and larger; and the need of determining which fund to buy is more important as well. In this study, we want to find out the relationship between mutual fund managerial team and mutual fund performance. We examine the performance of 64 mutual funds over the 3 year period 1997 through 1999 using Fama and French¡¦s 3-factor model. Then we test the persistence of mutual fund performance and whether a mutual fund manager have market timing ability. Results show that a fund¡¦s performance is significantly impacted by its manager¡¦s number, fund age, turnover, expense, and mutual fund company¡¦s age. All else equal, investors can expect better performance from funds with few manager numbers, low fees, low buy turnovers, high sale turnovers, and younger mutual fund companys. On average, mutual fund managers do not have market timing ability, and mutual funds exist performance fersistence over the 3 year period.

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The Relationship among Work-Family Conflict, Job Burnout, and Turnover Intention of Female Professionals in High-Tech Companies Abstract Last ten and more years , high-tech industries grow prosperous in Taiwan. There are lots of professionals entering to the high-tech industries. Though the environment of high-tech industry is better than traditional industry-- the better payment and the better future vision, it is also the place which makes the job pressure, stress, and burnout. The job burnout, coming from the long-term stress, brings to individual the embarrassment in his life, family, and career development. The stress management in professional job becomes the future issue to those managers in high-tech industry. Today, the structure of global human resource has changed, large of educated women join the labor market, they are playing multiple roles. In the limitation of time and energy, it¡¦s easy to make the inter-role conflict during she hopes to play each role perfectly. Evidence is increasing that work-family conflict negatively influences individual¡¦s physical and psychological aspects. Under the high-tech industry speedy innovation and intense competition, employee¡¦s work-family conflict and the work stress are more catching the attention. Though female professionals are the developing resource in the labor market, they are also the crowd tending to work-family conflict. If the female professionals are always in the condition of stress and no proper way to diminish it, eventually, they will be burnout and withdraw from the working place. It will be big loss not only to individuals but also to the companies. This study examined the relationship among burnout, perceived Job stress, and turnover intention using 165 female professionals from the companies in Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu, in particular, whether job burnout played a mediating role and social support played a moderating role in the stress-burnout process . The results indicated that : 1. Among the three components of work-family conflict, work interfering family was in high degree. And among the stressors, family involvement, and kids pressure were in high degree. 2. Among the three components of burnout, the exhaustion phenomenon was in high degree. 3. Work-family conflict was positively significant to job burnout. 4. A significant positive correlation was identified between job burnout and turnover intention. The exhaustion and cynicism components of burnout were positively significant predictors of turnover intention. 5. Job burnout was found to have significant mediating effect between work-family conflict and turnover intention. 6. Boss support, one of the social support components, was negatively associated with job burnout and turnover intention. In the moderating effect, most social support in higher-grades groups influenced work-family conflict and job burnout, and job burnout and turnover intention more significantly than lower-grades groups. Key words: work-family conflict, job burnout, turnover intention, social support, high-tech company, female professional.

The thesis is to examine the relationship of the employees¡¦ salary satisfaction, job involvement and turnover intention in the internet industry to know whether the degree of salary satisfaction and job involvement will affect the turnover intention of employees or not. It also examines whether the employees have different salary satisfaction for the future and how this will affect their turnover intention. The result provide the managers of the industry to draw up appropriate salary management strategy to lift the salary satisfaction and job involvement, lower the turnover intention effectively and make the companies more competitive. Considering of the time, manpower and resources, the thesis take ten Internet companies as the samples. Effective questionnaires sent back are 108 and the effective rate is 12.9¢M. By using the statistic methods, the findings of this research indicate that: 1. The sex of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨. 2. The sex of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 3. The sex of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§job involvement¡¨. 4. The sex of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§turnover intention¡¨ 5. Female employees of the Internet industry have obviously higher ¡§turnover intention¡¨ than male employees. 6. The age of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 7. The marriage status of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§job involvement¡¨. 8. The current service length of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§turnover intention¡¨. 9. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant negative correlations between ¡§current service length¡¨ and ¡§turnover intention¡¨. 10. The working service length of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨. 11. The working service length of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 12. The working service length of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§job involvement¡¨. 13. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§working service length¡¨ and ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨. 14. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§working service length¡¨ and ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 15. The department of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 16. The department of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§job involvement¡¨. 17. The department of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§turnover intention¡¨. 18. The grade of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 19. The monthly salary of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨. 20. The monthly salary of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 21. The monthly salary of the employees in the Internet industry has significant difference on ¡§job involvement¡¨. 22. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§monthly salary¡¨ and ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨. 23. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§monthly salary¡¨ and ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨. 24. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§monthly salary¡¨ and ¡§job involvement¡¨. 25. For the employees of the Internet industry, to appear significant negative correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction¡¨ and ¡§turnover intention¡¨. 26. For employee of in the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction ¡§ and ¡§job involvement ¡§. 27. For employee of the Internet industry, to appear high positive correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction for the current ¡§ and ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡§. 28. For employee of the Internet industry, to appear significant negative correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨ and ¡§turnover intention ¡§. 29. For employee of the Internet industry, to appear significant negative correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨ and ¡§ turnover intention ¡§. 30. For employee of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction for the current¡¨ and ¡§ job involvement ¡¨ 31. For employee of the Internet industry, to appear significant positive correlations between ¡§salary satisfaction for the future¡¨ and ¡§ job involvement ¡¨. 32. The ¡§working service length¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on job involvement. 33. The ¡§sex¡¨ has significant negative forecast ability on job involvement. 34. ¡§The salary satisfaction for the future¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on job involvement. 35. The ¡§sales department¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on job involvement. 36. The ¡§marital status¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on job involvement. 37. The ¡§sex¡¨ has significant negative forecast ability on turnover intention. 38. The ¡§planning department¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on turnover intention. 39. The ¡§current salary satisfaction¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on turnover intention. 40. The ¡§marketing department¡¨ has significant positive forecast ability on turnover intention. According to the above result, I can discover the turnover intention of the employees of the Internet industry is getting higher. The employees are confident of their turnover ability, which will induce company loss. Thus I suggest that Internet companies shall combine the fiction with the substantiation to form a new type of enterprise. Furthermore, the result that the female employees have higher turnover intention but higher job involvement is worthy for proprietor of the Internet industry to pay attention to. Because the characteristics of female employees are helpful to the busy Internet working environment, the proprietor or professional managers shall consider to adjust or change the working environment, job content or management system to let female employees fully contribute their talent, lower their turnover intention and benefit the company.

SUMMARY The purpose of this study is to discuss the clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention at Tainan regional hospitals; compare the difference of clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention by the variation of personal character and the variation of organization; and research for the interaction of clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention. The total 301 clinical nurses from three different hospitals are surveyed by the self-made questionnaire of clinical nurse's work value and turnover intention. The total 263 useful questionnaires are collected and analyzed by the statistical techniques including mean, proportion, correlation analysis, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis etc. The finding from this study provides the following information: 1.In the category of work value, the safe working environment and job pay have the highest score and the self-learning has the lowest score. In the category of job satisfaction, the management satisfaction is the best and the pay satisfaction is the worst. The recognition and devotion commitments are more important than the retention commitment in the category of organizational commitment. The average score for turnover intention is 15.26 (full marks is 25). 2.The substantial discrepancy in clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention exists in the result of the variation of organization. 3.The variation of personal character leads to the significant discrepancy in work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention. 4.The job satisfaction results from the work value at government contracted-hospital. The organizational commitment results from the job satisfaction at all three hospitals. The turnover intention is under the influence of organizational commitment at city hospital, under the influence of job satisfaction and organizational commitment at Christian hospital and under the influence of work value and organizational commitment at government contracted-hospital. The conclusion from this study provides the hospital management with the concept how to limit the turnover intention in order to maintain the top competitive ability in medical business and provide the best service quality for the clients.

For managing an enterprise, the exterior must face the fast changes of markets, technologies, and customers and the interior must communicate and coordinate among superiors, colleagues, and subordinates. Under the allocation of limited resources, members in organization usually utilize their own power to acquire the extra-benefits for protecting their own or group¡¦s benefits. The frequency and strength of political behavior occurred in the organization depend on the factors such as organizational framework and environment to be varied. Among these factors, the employee mindset is a major problem ¡]Tushman¡A1977¡^. The study uses Perceptions of Organizational Politics Model developed by Ferris et al.¡]1989¡^as research frame to discuss the effects of perception of organizational politics on job satisfaction, job pressure, Job involvement, and turnover tendency of organizational employees: do Perceptions of Organizational Politics vary in different industries and if there is a difference in the degree of Perception of Organizational Politics of employee¡¦s behavior in different industries. In the study, Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale (POPS) totals 26 items which adopt 15 items from POPS of Kacmar & Carlson (1992) plus 11 items out of 31 items of Kacmar & Ferris (1992). After factor analysis, the POPS is divided into four perspectives: ¡§superior behavior¡¨, ¡§go along to get ahead¡¨, ¡§promotion and difference between policy practice and execution ¡¨ and ¡§coworker and clique behavior¡¨. The objectives of the study are ¡§public and private hospital¡¨, ¡§private high technology industry¡¨, ¡§private traditional manufacturing industry¡¨, ¡§public service industry¡¨, ¡§government agency¡¨ and ¡§public and private school¡¨. A total of 1141 questionnaires were mailed to the firms of industries described above, among the returned, 935 questionnaires were effective. The data were analyzed by Correlation Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Factor analysis, ANOVA , and Regression Analysis. The results show as the followings: 1. ¡§Sex¡¨, ¡§Age¡¨, ¡§education level¡¨ and ¡§tenure¡¨ of individual variables have no significant difference in Perceptions of Organizational Politics. 2. The results of the whole sample analysis confirm that Perceptions of Organizational Politics in the elementary employees are higher than that in the superiors. 3. In the study of cross-organizational comparison, It is found that in different industries Perceptions of Organizational Politics indeed cause negative effects on job satisfaction and job involvement, which make employees produce job pressure and increase the intention to leave. 4. The degree of Perceptions of Organizational Politics in employees varies in different industries, among surveyed industries, the Perceptions of Organizational Politics in ¡§public and private hospital¡¨ are highest. 5. ¡§Superior behavior¡¨ is the most important reason to cause employees¡¦ job unsatisfaction, job pressure and turnover tendency in different industries. 6. The study shows that ¡§coworker and clique behavior¡¨ has no significant effect on employee¡¦s job satisfaction, job involvement and turn over tendency, however, it is the main source of employee¡¦s job pressure in ¡§private high technology industry ¡¨and ¡§government agency¡¨. 7. ¡§Salary, Promotion and difference between policy practice and execution ¡¨ is the major reason for employees in ¡§private traditional manufacturing industry¡¨ to decease the intention of job involvement. It means that employees in ¡§private traditional manufacturing industry¡¨ than that in other industries care salary, promotion and difference between policy practice and execution. 8. Employees in ¡§public service industry¡¨ and ¡§public and private school¡¨ have higher level of job satisfaction than other surveyed industries. 9. Employees in ¡§public and private hospital¡¨, ¡§private traditional manufacturing industry¡¨ and ¡§private high technology industry¡¨ have higher job pressure than other surveyed industries. 10. Employees in ¡§private high technology industry¡¨, ¡§public and private school¡¨ and ¡§public service industry¡¨ have higher intention of job involvement than other surveyed industries. 11. Employees in ¡§private traditional manufacturing industry¡¨ and ¡§public and private hospital¡¨ have higher turnover tendency than other industries. The results of the study confirm that Perceptions of Organizational Politics indeed cause negative effects on employee¡¦s job satisfaction and job involvement, bring employees job pressure, result in decrease of job morale, and further increase the intention to leave. At this time, it depends on managers how to develop their own creativity and carry out strategic integration to gather the organizational members together. So a high performance team can be built to increase the competitive ability of the enterprise.

Do salespeople who follow the Golden Rule or let their faith influence their behavior serve their customers better or like their jobs and employers more than other salespeople? The Golden Rule is a quote from Christ found in Matthew 7:12 NIV and is considered a universal ethical principle taught by all major religions. It is also a behavioral standard for many in business. A review of the sales, marketing, and organizational literatures, however, failed to uncover studies which assess the relationships of following the Golden Rule or a person’s faith or spirituality with key business outcomes. Salespeople impact the performance and perception of their firms, yet are regarded as highly unethical by the public. Therefore, an investigation of how these variables influence their behavior seems justified. A Golden Rule Disposition (GRD) is conceptualized as a higher-order personality disposition which influences the traits of agape love, forgiveness, gratitude, humility, and selflessness. Personal faith is defined as a higher order personality trait blending a desire for a personal relationship with God (the Divine or Supreme Being) with core personality influences on the behaviors of an individual. A comprehensive model was developed and tested using structural equation modeling to investigate a GRD’s relationships with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, propensity to leave, life satisfaction, and customer orientation. Personal faith’s influence on these relationships was tested using moderated multiple regression. Completed questionnaires were collected from 142 members of an automobile dealer’s sales force to provide the data for this study. A GRD influenced all proposed lower order traits except for selflessness and humility. A GRD had a positive effect on all dependent variables except propensity to leave and life satisfaction. Faith was not a moderator of any relationships, but was found to be positively related to forgiveness and gratitude. A surprising result was the lack of a relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. These findings should be important to organizations that practice the marketing concept. The combined effect of following the Golden Rule and personal faith leads to more satisfied customers and a more stable workforce to meet organizational goals.

Nowadays, more and more organizations put efforts on recruitment process in order to find the right employees. With the new technology development, the various recruitment sources yield. The differential effectiveness of the various sources through which outside applicants hear of employment opportunities at a particular organization needs further research to identify which sources yield stable, reliable, and high-performing employees (Taylor, 1988). In this study, we also adapt the concept of cognitive dissonance which has been never used in organizational issues to see its availability on organizational issues. In order to know how realistic job previews (RJPs) can be functioned effectively and when and in what forms the realistic job previews messages are processed most effectively by new comers during recruitment process, we need to extend the realistic job previews prior research and try to understand the factors that influence an realistic job preview message as well as how realistic job previews operate to influence socialization outcomes. Besides, how effective the new comers acquire the realistic job preview messages (information) is also an important issue that will be emphasized in this study. This study contributed to understand the current situation of realistic job previews which recruiters provide during recruitment procedure and the relationship between RJPs, cognitive dissonance and socialization outcomes. In this study, the sample was distributed to the new employees whose tenure was less than one year. The total distributed samples were 280 and returned samples were 237. We excluded 20 invalid responses and final samples were 217. One Way ANOVA and Linear Regression were used to analyse the relationship between variables in this study. The result can be summarized as follows: 1. As the result reported, most of applicants (66.8%) apply job through Internet. The result indicates that most of applicants today prefer web-based interface as they try to seek recruitment related information. Most applicants (85.7%) experience laboratory setting (e.g. interview) during recruitment process. Over half of new comers (56.2%) get realistic job information after they started the job. The result suggests that over half of applicants get whole realistic job preview after they accept the job offer. 2. As our result reported, greater use of medium, settings, and recruiters while realistic job previews are presented during recruitment process significantly influence new comers¡¦ cognitive dissonance, especially for wisdom of making employment decision and concern over selection procedure. The result indicates that the medium of written, will lead the strongest influence to new comers¡¦ cognitive dissonance during recruitment process. The position of recruiters who provide job information during recruitment process is reported to significantly influence wisdom of making employment decision and concern over selection procedure. The result of comparison between groups suggests that if line employees who are responsible to provide job information, the new comers will perceive a stronger influence on the degrees of cognitive dissonance comparing with the recruiters who are in other positions. 3. Great use of timing of realistic job previews presented during recruitment process is partially associated with new comers¡¦ socialization outcomes. 4. Realistic job preview information presented during recruitment process is negatively associated with new comers¡¦ cognitive dissonance, positively associated with organizational commitment and negatively associated with turnover intention after they get into an organization. 5. Cognitive dissonance except emotional, is negatively associated with organizational commitment and positively associated with turnover intention. 6. The mediating effect of cognitive dissonance between realistic job previews and socialization outcomes is noteworthy.

The inflation that Taiwan encountered in the 80ies made it difficult for many Taiwan companies to gain profit from their production or make a break-trough in production technology. In addition, due to the increase of labor cost and environmental cost, as well as new policies and issues regarding global trading and custom, many of them have reduced or cut their production lines when the production conditions have become worse and worse. In search of better utilization of existing production resource, facilities and lower labor cost, some of the Taiwan companies have moved their factories to Vietnam. And that brings up two issues that managers have to deal with, which is whether or not the local workforce can work efficiently and whether the turnover rate is too high. A high separation is a lost of company. Document research showed that employees who have higher performance evaluation have a lower turnover intension to resign. This research discussed the variables that affected organizational commitment. It surveyed Vietnamese and Taiwanese employees in Taiwanese-owned companies in Vietnam¡]Ho Chi Minh City¡^. Using promotional justice, salary justice, and management justice (three branches: result evaluation, award evaluation, and improvement valuation) as independent variables to regression analysis Taiwanese business¡¦s management justice and its effects on Chinese employees turnover intension. Most of the specialists of organization behavior put personal values and personal character as one of the variables that affect turnover intension. Thus, this research set personal values and personal character as the adjusting factors. The results were that some personal values and personal character interacted with each other and lower the employees¡¦ turnover intension.