Universities require highly qualified and committed instructors to carry out the significant tasks of educating the future generation of the society. The primary interest of this study was to explore the construct of teacher commitment to determine its dimensions and components and finally design EFL Teachers’ Professional Commitment Questionnaire. First, through a thorough analysis of th...

background: one of the significant processes concerning human resources is the organizational socialization of the recruited people through which new members get acquainted with values, norms and behavioral models and adapt themselves with the organizational culture. the present study evaluated the relationship between organizational socialization and commitment among nurses in shariati hospita...

this paper investigates the factors affecting the organizational commitment of the khorasan razavi’s gas company’s staff in the central office of mashhad. the method of research was survey and the data was collected using a standard questionnaire. the population was consisted of 200 personnel and the sample included 66 individuals from the company’s staff which were selected though stratified s...

present study is conducted to measure the effect of obligation to religious functions on pedagogy employees’ organizational commitment in shahriar. for this purpose, the variables of two aspects namely “worship” and “ethics” are considered as the constituents of obligation to religious functions and their impact on employees’ organizational commitment is studied. two questionnaires were used to...

Organizational Commitment has been defined as the extent that an individual accepts, internalizes, and views his or her role based on organizational values and goals. The three components –affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment– form the basis of a new conceptualization of organizational commitment. Job stress has become one of the most serious health issues ...

A modular, transdiagnostic approach to treatment design and implementation may increase the public health impact of evidence-based psychosocial interventions. Such an approach relies on algorithms for selecting and implementing treatment components intended to have a specific therapeutic effect, yet there is little evidence for how components function independent of their treatment packages whe...

It has been suggested that the ability of quantum mechanics to allow secure distribution of secret key together with its inability to allow bit commitment or communicate superluminally might be sufficient to imply the rest of quantum mechanics. I argue using a toy theory as a counterexample that this is not the case. I further discuss whether an additional axiom (key storage) brings back the qu...

A cryptographic security scheme is proposed within the frame of a subsystem of the integrated computer-aided system that is intended for holding elections and counting the election returns. The solution is based on two quantum technologies of cryptographic security: quantum bit commitment

In the last few years several practitioners have proposed different strategies for implementing Attribute-based credentials (ABCs) on smart cards [3, 4, 20–23]. ABCs allow citizens to prove certain properties about themselves without necessarily revealing their full identity. The Idemix ABC [10] is the most versatile ABC system proposed in the literature, supporting pseudonyms, equality proof o...

The action-based model of dissonance predicts that following decisional commitment, approach-oriented motivational processes occur to assist in translating the decision into effective and unconflicted behavior. Therefore, the modulation of these approach-oriented processes should affect the degree to which individuals change their attitudes to be more consistent with the decisional commitment (...