The assumption commitment also called rely guarantee style has been advocated for the speci cation of interactive components of distri buted systems One of its motivations is to achieve modularity for state transition speci cations of system components It suggests the structuring of speci cations into assumptions about the behavior of the component s environment and into commitments that are fu...

The current meta-analysis examined the hypothesized consequences of work and general locus of control. As expected, work locus of control generally yielded stronger relationships with work-related criteria (e.g., job satisfaction, affective commitment, and burnout) than general locus of control. We also found some evidence that general locus of control yielded relatively stronger relationships ...

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...

The study uses the job demands-resources (JD-R) theory to examine effects of work-related stress, life-work balance support, and emotional intelligence on organizational continuance commitment workers in under-resourced organizations. Quantitative cross-sectional survey data were collected from 212 at selected independently owned schools western Zimbabwe. Correlation multiple-regression analyse...

Managerial Skills, Work Commitment, and Motivation have direct indirect effects on teacher discipline, according to this study. This study employs a quantitative methodology. The included 144 teachers from seven Madrasahs, for total sample size of 105 persons, as determined by the Slovin formula. Proportional random sampling is used sampling. Madrasah Principal Skills (40 items), work commitmen...

A model hypothesizing differential relationships among predictor variables and individual commitment to the organization and work team was tested. Data from 485 members of sewing teams supported the existence of differential relationships between predictors and organizational and team commitment. In particular, intersender conflict and satisfaction with coworkers were more strongly related to t...

When commitment schemes are used in complex environments, e.g., the Internet, the issue of malleability appears, i.e., a concurrent man-in-the-middle adversary might generate commitments to values related to ones committed to by honest players. In the plain model, the current best solution towards resolving this problem in a constant number of rounds is the work of Ostrovsky, Persiano and Visco...

AIM To examine to what extent personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness), organizational stress, and attitudes toward work and interactions between personality and either organizational stress or attitudes toward work prospectively predict 3 components of burnout. METHODS The study was carried out on 118 hospital nurses. Data were analyzed b...