The evolution of U.S. civil commitment law needs to be understood within the context of changes in psychiatry and medicine, as well as larger social policy and economic changes. American civil commitment law has reflected the swinging pendulum of social attitudes towards civil commitment, oscillating between more and less restriction for both procedural and substantive standards. These standard...

A collaborative group is commonly defined as a set of agents, which share information and coordinate activities while working towards a common goal. How do groups decide which are their common goals and what to intend? According to the much cited theory of Cohen and Levesque, an agent intends g if it has chosen to pursue goal g and it has committed itself to making g happen. Following the same ...

A study of 389 Taiwanese expatriates working in Mainland China was conducted to investigate the relationship between Hollingshead’s 2-Factor Index of Social Position and organizational commitment. The methods of data analysis used in this study consisted of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), internal consistency reliability, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc comparison test...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...

The present study investigates the effect of perceived social support (PSS) and perceived religious endorsement (PRE) on career commitment (CC) of Saudi nurses. The investigation also extends to the moderating role of different demographic and organizational factors in the extent of PSS, and career commitment these nurses report. Data required for meeting these study objectives were collected f...

Four studies examined the relationship between counterfactual origins--thoughts about how the beginning of organizations, countries, and social connections might have turned out differently--and increased feelings of commitment to those institutions and connections. Study 1 found that counterfactually reflecting on the origins of one's country increases patriotism. Study 2 extended this finding...