This study compares the effectiveness of two approaches, punitive consequence and logical consequence, to change employees’ non-work related computing (NWRC) behaviors in the workplace. Employees’ affective commitment to change (change by desire), normative commitment to change (change by obligation), and continuance commitment to change (change by cost-benefit comparison) were compared. A betw...

In this paper, we focus on childbearing after the dissolution of the first marital union. The discussion of what drives fertility decisions after dissolution has been largely dominated by the arguments that: (a) people want to have a child as a way to achieve the adult status of parenthood (the "parenthood hypothesis"), and that (b) a shared child can signal the partners' commitment to each oth...

Many studies have examined the relationship between training and employee job satisfaction, organizational commitment, competence but there are still many unanswered questions. In particular, research has not explained how directly affect satisfaction managerial indirectly commitment through satisfaction. Therefore, this study investigates commitment. Indirectly, Survey-based data collection wa...

Over 1,000 U.S. Army officers responded to two surveys over a two-year period. Results indicated that mentoring was positively related to affective commitment and continuance commitment and negatively related to “turnover behavior.” The relationship with affective commitment was moderated by the conditions of mentorship (supervisory versus nonsupervisory) but not by the type of mentoring suppor...

Previous studies on newcomer socialization have evidenced quite consistently that newcomers’ affective commitment tends to decline in the first years of employment. In this paper, we attempt to explain why a minority of Brazilian newcomers in a governmental organization (N = 194) display growth in commitment (33 per cent) in the first 3 years of employment, despite the fact that the odds are cl...

Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...