Employees who want to leave their companies may exhibit low morale and commitment to organizations, which may affect the way employees interact with customers. The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the relationship between employees' affective, continuance, and normative commitment to their organizations and their turnover intentions. The target population consisted of individuals with 2 or more years of call center experience who resided in the United States. Meyer, Allen, and Smith's 3-component model of commitment provided the study's theoretical framework. A purposive sampling of participants, which included a targeted audience and individuals who accessed the survey from Facebook and LinkedIn, returned 81 usable surveys. Data were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. The overall regression model showed a statistically significant relationship between the 3 forms of commitment and turnover intentions, although normative commitment had the strongest relationship with turnover intentions. Study results provide additional evidence showing that employees' affective, continuance, and normative commitment to their organizations relate to their turnover intentions. These results may contribute to positive social change by helping leaders to better understand the relationship between employees' organizational affective, continuance, and normative commitment and turnover intentions. With this knowledge, leaders may be able to decrease turnover and turnover-related costs and increase firm performance. The money saved from turnover costs can be used to develop employees, invest in the company culture, or contribute to community-related programs.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how the phenomenon of technostress is present in the accounting and auditing industry depending on the mode of working and further examine its relationship with job satisfaction and organizational commitment which in this context is valid to measure turnover intentions. A quantitative research approach was used in this research where the primary data was collected through a survey among audit and accounting professionals in Sweden. Standard multiple regression analysis to examine how technostress is connected to job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The findings of this research confirm that technostress as a phenomenon. is perceived regardless of the mode of working in the accounting and auditing branches. Moreover, it was found that technostress is negatively associated with job satisfaction and further with organizational commitment.

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The objectives of the study were: (1) to determine the relationship between organisational commitment (measured by the Organisational Commitment Scale), retention factors (measured the Retention Factor Scale) and job embeddedness (measured by the Job Embeddedness Questionnaire), and (2) to determine whether employees from different gender, age, race, marital status, tenure and job level groups differ significantly in their levels of organisational commitment, retention factors and perceived job embeddedness. A quantitative survey was conducted on a purposive sample (N = 206) of medical and IT service staff in the South African client service sector. Correlational and inferential statistical analyses revealed significant relationships between organisational commitment, retention factors and perceived job embeddedness. Significant differences between gender, age, race, marital status, tenure and job level groups were also found. The findings contribute valuable insight and knowledge to the field of Career Psychology that can be applied in the retention of employees in the medical and IT industry. The study concludes with recommendations for future research and practice. / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / (M.Comm. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology))

The general aim of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment in a consulting firm in South Africa. A quantitative, cross-sectional survey design was used on a non-probability sample (n=68) from an identified consulting firm in South Africa, utilising the Organisational Culture Questionnaire (Harrison & Stokes, 1992) and Organisational Commitment Scale (Meyer & Allen, 1997). The results were analysed using Pearson’s correlation analysis and indicated that there is no relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment in the consulting firm / Industrial & Organisational Psychology / Industrial and Organisational Psychology / M.A. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Child and family nonprofit organizations are essential for the implementation of United States public policy in their role as service providers. Human service nonprofit organizations held approximately 20,000 government contracts, totaling more than $100 billion in 2009 (Boris, deLeon, Roeger, & Nikolva, 2010). Almost 33,000 human service nonprofit organizations contract with the government to deliver services (Boris, et al., 2010). The services provided by these organizations are critical to the lives of vulnerable American citizens. These organizations depend on committed employees to serve this group, carry out the mission, and reach organizational goals. Employees are nonprofit organizations’ greatest resource, investment, and also expense (Rutowski, Guiler, & Schimmel, 2009), thus turnover is considered a critical problem facing the nonprofit sector (Salamon, 2012). Retaining highly committed employees in this important work has been of interest to those studying the nonprofit sector because it is a significant problem particularly in the area of human services (Mor Barak, Levin, Nissly, & Lane, 2006). This study asks if leadership and organizational culture have an impact on nonprofit employees’ commitment to their workplace. This quantitative research uses a quota sample of 103 nonprofit employees to understand the relationships between their perceptions of their managers’ transformational leadership, their perceptions of their organizations’ culture types (clan, adhocracy, hierarchy, market) and two important and distinct employee outcomes, affective commitment and turnover intention. The findings indicate that perceived transformational leadership matters to nonprofit employees as it positively predicts their affective commitment and negatively predicts their turnover intentions. The majority of respondents reported that they perceived their organizations as clan cultures, which are known to be friendly, personal places where belonging and connectedness is high. The findings also reveal that hierarchical cultures play a role in this predictive relationship, having a moderating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership and affective commitment. In contrast, the findings reveal that compared to clan cultures, hierarchical and market cultures may be problematic in that they positively predict employees’ turnover intentions. Further, perceived hierarchical cultures negatively predict the employees’ affective commitment.

Comprometimento organizacional é um tema complexo e que vem gerando, na literatura e na prática, discussões em relação à análise dos antecedentes e das variáveis que possam avaliá-la. Para as organizações que vem passando por uma transformação rumo a participação estratégica tão almejada e nem sempre alcançada mostra imperativo o gerenciamento de um comprometimento afetivo. Para este trabalho foi realizada a análise da literatura existente, seguida de uma pesquisa de campo. Por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória, descritiva e quantitativa, buscou-se responder se existe relação entre uma comunicação interna eficaz e o comprometimento afetivo das pessoas nas organizações. A literatura mostrou que a comunicação é um dos principais fatores de comprometimento e que o processo de comunicação é um processo fundamental na estratégia do comprometimento. Assim, essa comunicação deve ser planejada, dispondo de canais e instrumentos diversos, permitindo assim a atuação sinérgica de todas as áreas da organização. A partir destes aspectos e conceitos elaborados, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de campo, que envolveu 79 funcionários de uma empresa do ranking das ?100 Melhores Empresas para Você Trabalhar?, de 2003, publicada pela Guia da Revista Exame, da Você S. A. Os resultados demonstraram que existe uma forte dependência e associação entre a comunicação interna eficaz, planejamento da comunicação organizacional e o comprometimento afetivo, permitindo concluir que o comprometimento afetivo está associada a comunicação interna eficaz. / Organizational commitment is a complex theme that has been generating, both in literature and practice, discussions concerning the relationship between the past data and variables that may evaluate them. The organization looking for the strategic participation but not exactly finding that shows the need of an affective commitment. In order to find out that, it was searched the existing literature followed by a field research. Through an exploratory and descriptive research, it was explored if there is any relationship between an efficient internal communication and the affective commitment among people within an organization. The literature showed that communication is one of the main commitment factors and that the communication process is fundamental in the commitment strategy. It means, communication must be planned, with different channels and tools, permitting in this way, all areas to act synergistically in the organization. Elaborating these aspects and concepts, it was developed a field research, involving 79 employees from a company presented in the ?100 Melhores Empresas para Você Trabalhar? ranking, in 2003, published by the Revista Exame Guide, Você S. A. The results demonstrated that there is a great dependence and association among an efficient internal communication, organizational communication plan and the affective commitment, so that it´s possible to conclude that the affective commitment is associated to an efficient internal communication.

A importância do comprometimento dos empregados para com os objetivos organizacionais está evidenciada em função do novo paradigma de produção industrial: a automação integrada flexível. Desde o início da produção em massa introduzida pela indústria automobilística até recentemente, o paradigma taylorista/fordista de produção era dominante. Este modelo, marcado pela automação rígida em base eletromecânica é caracterizado pela utilização maciça de empregados com níveis de escolaridade e qualificação mínimos, pela extrema divisão do trabalho que tornam as tarefas simples, rotineiras e pré-especificadas e por apresentar mínima necessidade de intervenção no processo produtivo. A nova base técnica emergente da automação integrada flexível tem na diversificação um fator de vantagem competitiva e de captura de novos mercados, ao contrário da base técnica tradicional, que busca ganhos de produtividade por crescentes economias de escalas, obtidas pelo emprego de maquinário especializado de grande produção de itens padronizados. O novo paradigma, denominado de toyotismo é, em geral, diferente do taylorismo/fordismo no que diz respeito à organização da produção e dos processos de trabalho. Isto significa que, ao invés de recursos humanos alienados e despreparados, a nova situação exige um quadro de empregados qualificados e comprometidos para participarem ativamente do processo produtivo. Tal mudança justifica a dedicação de diversos pesquisadores ao estudarem o comprometimento dos empregados para com os seus trabalhos, desde o início dos anos 80, objetivando compreender as principais variáveis que explicam o comportamento humano frente ao trabalho. Três fatores essenciais são destacados ao bom funcionamento das organizações: (a) as pessoas devem ser induzidas a entrar e a permanecer no sistema; (b) elas devem desempenhar seus papéis específicos de maneira confiável e (c) devem ser inovadoras e atuar espontaneamente, além das prescrições do seu papel. As diversas abordagens conceituais e as respectivas fontes teóricas utilizadas na investigação do comprometimento organizacional fazem com que seja oportuno o estudo para a proposição de um modelo conceitual mais abrangente, para o melhor entendimento desse fenômeno, tendo em vista a relevância do tema e os dilemas que o circundam. Portanto, o problema central da pesquisa é o de elaborar uma proposição de modelo conceitual, considerando-se as variáveis antecedentes à variável do comprometimento, baseando-se no referencial teórico apresentado e nas especificidades brasileiras; e, posteriormente, constatar sua coerência frente às estratégias de Recursos Humanos adotadas por empresas que pretendem obter vantagem competitiva sustentável, com base no fator humano, em longo prazo. A pesquisa foi aplicada a duas empresas de culturas distintas: 525 colaboradores da Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo-Metrô e 180 colaboradores da Nortel Networks do Brasil responderam a um questionário de 153 questões sobre diversas variáveis precedentes ao comprometimento. Utilizou-se a Análise e Modelagem de Equações Estruturais SEM e o programa AMOS 3.61b (w32) para conseguir avaliar as relações entre todas as variáveis ao mesmo tempo. A segunda etapa da pesquisa constituiu-se na realização de entrevistas com pessoas da administração das duas empresas para o desvendar das respectivas culturas organizacionais. Deste modo, pôde-se apreciar a relação existente entre as diferentes culturas e as principais variáveis explicativas do comprometimento dos colaboradores. As descobertas do trabalho reafirmam a importância de novas pesquisas para validar os modelos que foram obtidos nos estudos de caso. / The importance of the collaborator´s commitment to the organization´s objectives is evidenced in function of the new paradigm of industrial production: the integrated flexible automation. Since the beginning of mass production plants started by the automobile industry until recently, the paradigm taylorism/fordism has been the dominant. This model, marked by the rigid automation and electromechanics is characterized by the use of collaborators with low education level and minimum qualification, for the extreme division of the work getting the tasks simple, routine and pre-specified and presenting any intervention´s need in productive process. The new emerging technical of integrated flexible automation has in the diversification a factor of competitive advantage and a facility of capture new markets, unlike traditional technical that looks for productivity through economies of scale, obtained by the machinery of large production of standardized items. This new paradigm, called of toyotism is different from the taylorism/fordism concerning production organization and work processes, as a whole. This means that instead of alienated and non prepared human resources the new situation demands a team of qualified and committed collaborators that participate actively in the productive process. This shift explains several researchers\' dedication on collaborators\' commitment to their works, since the beginning of the eighties, aiming to understand the main variables that explain the behavior of humans facing the work. The authors emphasize the importance of three essential factors to the operation of the organizations: (a) people should be induced to enter and stay in the system; (b) they should play their specific roles in a reliable way; and (c) they should be innovative and act spontaneously, yonder the prescriptions of the role. The several conceptual approaches and the respective theoretical sources in the investigation of organizational commitment result in an opportune study for the proposition of a large conceptual model, for the best understanding of that phenomenon, considering the prominence of the theme and the dilemmas that surround it. Therefore, the central problem of the research is elaborate a proposition of a conceptual model, considering the antecedent variables of the commitment, basing on the presented theoretical referential and in the brazilian peculiarities; and, later, verify his coherence regarding the strategies of human resources adopted by companies that intend to obtain maintainable competitive advantage, with base in the human factor, in long period. The research was applied to two companies of different cultures: 525 collaborators of the Subway of São Paulo and 180 collaborators of Nortel Networks of Brazil answered a questionnaire of 153 subjects on several precedent variables to the commitment. It was used the Analysis and Modelling of Structural Equations SEM and the program AMOS 3.61b (w32) to get the evaluation of the relationships among all the variables at the same time. The second stage of the research was constituted in the accomplishment of interviews with people of administrative level for unmasking of the respective organizational cultures. This way, the existent relationship can be appreciated between the different cultures and the main explanatory variables of the collaborators\' commitment. This work strongly confirms the importance of new researches to validate the models that were obtained in the two cases.

<p>Organisations are by nature, dynamic entities that continuously undergo transformation in response to both internal and external pressures, which are imposed on them (Robbins, Odendaal &amp / Roodt, 2003). Government departments are by no means immune to these changes, which pose challenges that affect their service delivery. During periods of fundamental transformation, individuals typically experience changes in their levels of organisational commitment, which impacts on effective and efficient service delivery. Organisational commitment as an area of research is one of the factors that could lead to greater morale, strong organisational climate, motivation and productivity in many organisations facing transformation (Salami, 2008). The aim of this study was to investigate the level of organisational commitment after a transformation process at a Provincial Government Department. Recent organisational transformations (both in the private and public sector) have included the redrawing of divisional boundaries, flattening of hierarchic levels, spreading of spans of control, revising compensation, streamlining processes and reforming governance (Ndlovu &amp / Brijball Parusumar, 2005). The results of the research indicate that employees are moderately committed to the organisation. Statistically significant relationships were found between the dimensions of organisational commitment, except for affective commitment and total commitment which were not significant.&nbsp / Furthermore, results indicate that statistically significant differences exist based on the biographical characteristics (namely, gender, race, tenure, marital status, age and job level) but these characteristics do not significantly explain the variance in organisational commitment for this organisation. A limitation of the research is that the sampling composition and research design preclude the results of this study being generalised to other organisations and it is recommended that a stratified random sampling design be utilised for future research.</p>

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of scale of change and behaviors of change leadership on employee job psychological stress and employee affective commitment to change, and to explore the job psychological stress in the organizational change strategy and affective commitment to change, whether in relations with intermediary results. Besides, this research also explores the moderating effects of employee positive psychological capital on organizational change strategy. Five hundred and eleven effective surveys were received by employees of Taiwanese banks. The data was analyzed by factor analysis, reliability analysis, using the LISREL model to measure the relationship amongst the constructs. Results showed that organizational change strategy and employee positive psychological capital had significant positively influence on employee affective commitment to change. Furthermore, job psychological stress had a significant negative influence on employee affective commitment to change. The mediating effects of employee job psychological stress towards organizational change strategy can negatively influence employee affective commitment to change. We also found that employee positive psychological capital could moderate the relationship between behaviors of change leadership and affective commitment to change. As a result, it is suggested that by improving psychological factors at work, it is possible to promote employee affective commitment to change as well as positive organization change.