Introduction Among organizational resources, human resources are known as one of the most important assets of any organization. Managers should develop effective strategies to achieve competitive advantages through employees. These advantages will be reached when employees try their best to achieve organizational objectives. There are some factors influence employees attempts in organizations. ...

Background: The study of factors affecting happiness can play an effective role in advancing the goals of the higher education system. Method: The research method is descriptive-correlation. The statistical population includes all employees of University of Bu Ali Sina. 208 employees were selected using stratified random sampling method for the study. Three standard questionnaires of work ethi...

The authors used theories of organizational commitment and obedience to authority to explain employment discrimination. In Study 1, employees participated in an experimental simulation of their work. An organizational authority's demographic preferences led to employment discrimination. As expected, affective organizational commitment moderated this effect, such that it was stronger for more co...

This article examines the relationship among perceived organizational support, affective organizational commitment, and employee citizenship behavior in Kuwaiti business organizations. Employees’ affective organizational commitment is proposed to mediate the relationship between perceived organizational support and employee citizenship behavior. Data were collected from 261 employees affiliated...

In this competitive environment, organizations in service sector and industrial sector are trying their best to win the loyalty of their customers by providing the superior quality services and innovative products to remain competitive in the market. The objective of this study is to focus on the concept that organizational well structured HRM policies and top management commitment for quality ...

This paper proposes that role stressors decrease helping behavior by undermining employees' normative commitment from a cognitive dissonance perspective and social exchange theory. We also propose two competitive assumptions of the moderating effect of perceived organizational support (POS). In this paper, we first examine these hypotheses in Study 1 and then verify the cognitive dissonance per...

PURPOSE To examine how professional commitment influences patient safety and patient-perceived care quality. DESIGN Investigators for this study used a cross-sectional design with questionnaires. A total of 348 pairs of nurses and inpatients were contacted at two medical centers in Taiwan during the period from August 2007 to January 2008, yielding 284 pairs of completed questionnaires. MET...

The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between the dimensions of glass ceiling and the organizational commitment of women employees at University of Isfahan, which was conducted by a correlational-type descriptive method. The study population consisted of the women employees working at University of Isfahan, whose number stood at 428 individual and 202 individuals of the...

The relevance of emotional intelligence and organizational commitment is tested among 142 employees of small and medium enterprise (SME) in private sector in Iran. The results indicate that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence as an overall construct and organizational commitment. Strong and positive influence of self management and social awareness as two competen...