The financial market in Taiwan shook away its bondage and started to move forward after the government declared the dissolution of financial policies in 1990. The approval of the installation of private banks in 1991 even flamed the competition existing in the monetary and financial market into a blaze.To make the situation even more drastic is our participation in the World Trade Organizations that international financial organizations are allowed to run their businesses here. Our local financial business did not only face the local competition, but also come across international counterparts. The keen competitionin the monetary market here is getting more and more fierce. Viewing bank clerks are the key to the success of a bank, this study aimed to find out how to inspire the employees and how to create an efficient management policy. This research also aimed at finding the relationship between ¡§monetary ethics¡¨ and ¡§professional commitment¡¨ & ¡§organizational commitment¡¨ among bank clerks. The subject of the study was bank clerks from 23 local banks throughout the island. There were total 422 copies of valid samples collected. The block regression is implied for analyzing the data. Through this research, we found bank clerks had the following responses: ¤@¡B The ¡§monetary ethics¡¨ behold have a great influence on professional commitment. 2¡B The stronger the make money is, the identification and involvement to profession will be higher. 3¡B The stronger the motivator is stronger, the identification and involvement to profession will be higher. 4¡B For those who think money can bring happiness, the involvement to profession will be higher. 5¡B The stronger the no intrinsic motivation is , the willingness to stay in the same profession will be lower. ¤G¡B The ¡§monetary ethics¡¨ behold have a great influence on organization commitment: 1¡B The weaker they regard ¡§money is good¡BImportant¡¨, the identification to organizational will be lower. 2¡B The stronger the make money is , the identification to organizational and willingness to stay in position will be higher. 3¡B The stronger the motivator is stronger is, the identification to organizational and willingness to stay in position will be higher. 4¡B The stronger the Budget Money is important, the involvement to organizational will be higher. 5¡B The stronger the rich is important, the identification to organizational will be lower.

Abstract According to the statistics of Department of Health, demand and quality of health care have been increased for the past decade in Taiwan. Not only the number of medical organizations of various categories is increasing rapidly, but also human resources and capital invested in the medical industry have been growing fast. The importance of salesman in this trade cannot be underestimated any longer. A study on the correlations among money ethic, professional commitment and organizational commitment of the salesman in the medical devices dealers was made to locate useful motivation elements and management suggestions to the salesman in this field as well as to serve as a reference for people who have been in practice or intend to join this industry. The subject of study was aimed at salesman of medical devices dealers. The structure of this study was established based on an understanding of properties of this industry and a review of documents. A sample survey was conducted and the impact of money ethic upon professional commitment and organizational commitment was examined in a statistical way of block regression. Results of this study are listed as follows: 1.The money ethic of salesman imposed significant impact upon the sub-dimensions of professional commitment. ¡]1¡^As the tendency of considering making money was important was getting stronger, professional identification became higher. ¡]2¡^As the tendency of considering making money was important was getting stronger, professional involvement became greater. ¡]3¡^As the tendency of budget emphasis was getting stronger, professional involvement became higher. ¡]4¡^As the tendency of considering money was no intrinsic motivation element was getting stronger, the willingness of staying in the same profession was getting lower. ¡]5¡^As the tendency of considering money was a motivation element was getting stronger, professional identification became higher. ¡]6¡^As the tendency of identifying money stood for power was getting stronger, the willingness of staying in the same profession ] was getting lower. 2.The money ethic of salesman imposed significant impact upon the sub-dimensions of organizational commitment. ¡]1¡^As the tendency of considering making money was important was getting stronger, professional identification became higher. ¡]2¡^As the tendency of considering money was no intrinsic motivation element was getting stronger, the willingness of staying in the same profession was getting lower. ¡]3¡^As the tendency of considering money was a motivation element was getting stronger, organizational identification became higher. ¡]4¡^As the tendency of identifying money stood for power was getting stronger, the willingness of staying in the same profession was getting lower.

Försvarsmaktens nya personalförsörjningssystem har medfört utmaningar och aktualiserat frågor kring de nya personalkategorierna. Utifrån att personalkategorin specialistofficer i framtiden ska utgöra kontinuiteten inom förbanden är syftet med studien att undersöka specialistofficerens relation till arbetsgivaren Försvarsmakten. Arbetets ansats är att ge en ökad förståelse för specialistofficerens relationship commitment, dvs. engagemanget för själva relationen till Försvarsmakten. Studiens teoretiska ram bygger på Meyer och Allens konceptuella trekomponentsmodell om organizational commitment. Studien genomförs som en attitydundersökning i form av en enkät, med framförallt slutna påståenden men även två öppna frågeställningar där resultatanalysen innehåller både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ del. Resultatet visar att specialistofficeren tillmäter den känslomässiga komponenten störst betydelse för relationen vilket bekräftar tidigare forskning avseende kännetecken förprofessionsyrken. Inom denna komponent värderas påverkansfaktorerna personlig kompetens, trivsel, delade värderingar och stolthet högst. Resultatet visar även att andra faktorer såsom tvingande miljö inom den normativa komponenten har ett visst inflytande i engagemanget för relationen och att relationsfördelar inom den kalkylerade komponenten har en hög korrelation till viljan att fortsätta relationen.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, Dec., 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Die Bedeutung von Commitment aus Sicht der Unternehmen bzw. der Organisationen wird in den letzten Jahren kontroversiell diskutiert wird. Einerseits wird im Bereich der Personalressourcen ein wesentlicher zentraler Wettbewerbsvorteil gesehen. Gleichzeitig können sehr verschiedene Formen von Beschäftigungsflexibilisierung beobachtet werden. Diese unterschiedlichen Zugänge werden in diesem Beitrag aufgezeigt und die vielseitige Einbettung von Arbeit wie z. B. die Wahrnehmung von Dispositionsmöglichkeiten im Hinblick auf Zeit, auf individuellen Handlungsspielräume oder auch die erlebte soziale Gerechtigkeit präsentiert. All diese Dimensionen bergen das Potenzial in sich, sich als Trenn- bzw. Verwerfungslinien (faultlines) in Organisationen darzustellen und damit auch Einfluss auf die Bindung in Organisationen zu haben.

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The consequences of war and conflict on mental health remain long after the events are over. Several publications and reports highlight the need for effective and cost-effective treatments targeting mental ill-health in war affected low-income countries. This study investigated the effects of a two-session Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) intervention on quality of life, psychological flexibility and Steps taken in valued direction. Participants were women (N=6) seeking help for HIV, Pain and Sexual abuse at a Non Governmental Organization in Sierra Leone. A single case design with repeated measures and pre, mid, and post-measures was used. Results show support for the interventions effect on Quality of Life and Steps taken in valued direction. Due to the small sample size in this pilot study the significance of the findings is limited.

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The Intranet Pencil and Paper Checklist (Murgolo-Poore et al., 2002) is a new measure developed to gauge the perceptions of organization members as to the effectiveness of the firms Intranet, from an Internal Marketing and Human Resource perspective. Three dimensions of the construct "Intranet Effectiveness " have been distilled from initial scale development research and testing, they are Operations, Facilitation and Culture.The instrument is now applied to a financial services organization with approximately 3000 staff to test its robustness across all layers of a hierarchy. It performed well, particularly in plumbing the perceptions of management towards their Intranet.Several theoretical perspectives were investigated to understand how OC and Intranet effectiveness may be associated, including Transaction Cost Theory, Communication Theory and Social Identity Theory. With this theoretical underpinning the instrument was administered to discern if an effective Intranet, through its power to communicate and involve multiple stakeholders had any correlation with Organizational Commitment.Intranet effectiveness was found to have a significant correlation, which varied in its effect across user groups. It was suggested as a focus for future research that peripheral groups might have benefited from the Intranet in a way that increased OC amongst those cohorts disproportionately. Should such a theory be borne out by empirical investigation, it has potential application for strategic decision making in Intranet design and management.

This study focused on the Australian health sector, examining the factors that influence the intention of volunteers to leave their employing organizations. There is a general scarcity of research concerning volunteer work, and understanding health sector volunteers is particularly important due to the significance of their contribution in Australia. In exploring volunteer work, this study has utilized a variant of the Mathieu and Zajac (1990) model of organizational commitment. In the health sector much of the work performed by volunteers is very similar to that done by paid employees. In addition, in the Australian health sector volunteers and paid employees often work alongside one another. The methodology integrated quantitative and qualitative data in order to generate a broad understanding of the factors influencing volunteer intention to leave an organization. Using the Mathieu and Zajac model variant, a hypothesis was developed and investigated. Quantitative data was gathered through the Job Characteristics Index (JCI), General Job Satisfaction Survey, and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ). In light of the quantitative findings not supporting the initial hypothesis of job characteristics being antecedent to intention to leave as mediated by job satisfaction and organizational commitment, a grounded theory approach was used to explore the antecedent factors. Qualitative data was gathered through open-ended questions in the survey and interviews. The following relationships were discovered and explored: motivation and job characteristics impacted upon the meaningfulness of volunteer work and upon organizational commitment, which had a covarying relationship with job satisfaction. The job characteristics of task identity, feedback and friendship opportunities were correlated with organizational commitment. In essence, the factors of motivation (recognized as altruism) and meaningfulness of work that volunteers do in the Australian health sector determine how the job characteristics and other factors will influence the decision to leave an organization. The study discusses key findings and presents recommendations for relating to effective management of volunteers in the health sector. As a secondary outcome, the study demonstrates the value of judiciously using models and measures normally associated with paid employment in understanding volunteer activity. It is anticipated that these outcomes will inform future research within the volunteer sector.