The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between organizational trust and organizational commitment in staff. Eighty-four persons from 101 staff of department of Sports and Youth in the province of Mazandaran responded to two questionnaires of “Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI)” developed by Shockley-Zalaba, Ellis, and Winograd (2000) and “Organizational Commitment Questio...

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...

Background. There are not too many studies that deal with the organizational commitment of emergency physicians. This commitment has been shown to impact organizational performance. The aim of this paper is to analyse the degree of commitment of the emergency physicians in Spanish public hospitals and the factors that may influence it. Method. Online survey using SurveyMonkey to emergency physi...

purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between tendency toward teleworking and organizational commitment (affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment) among the librarians of isfahan public universities. methodology: the research method was descriptive – correlational survey and the population consisted of all librarians in isfahan univ...

Teamwork is crucial to organizational success and commitment to teams is an important predictor of team-related behaviors. However, theorists and researchers have typically assumed that commitment levels are generally stablewithin-persons, increasing or decreasing as a result of substantial organizational changes. This position is at odds with the evidence of systematic and regular intraindivid...

In a sample of 302 business-school alumni, we found that relations between affective commitment and discretionary citizenship behaviour were contingent on criterion-relevant norms. Our findings suggest that affective commitment may increase one's motivation to comply with behavioural norms, regardless of whether the norms denote low or high performance. The practical and theoretical implication...

A cross-cultural model designed to investigate the cultural influences on leadership and management styles adopted by managers as well as the effect of different management styles on affective commitment intensity is presented. It is further argued that culture significantly influences affective commitment intensity independently from the management style. Research propositions are formulated b...

Based on social exchange theory, a vast body of research has applied trust-commitment theory to explain marketing relationships and to predict their outcome in industrial contexts. Affective commitment in particular has drawn much attention. A review of the literature shows that the research in the field is both scattered and fragmented. Further, the cultural context surrounding the relationshi...

Organizational commitment is a psychological construction of responsibility that an employee has towards the mission and direction of an organization. This study is to identify the Malaysian private organizations employees’ perception of their jobs and how to improve their work commitment towards their organizations. The problem of many organizations today is not just to have more skillful and ...

Affective organizational commitment reflects the extent to which organizational members are loyal and willing to work toward organizational objectives (Meyer & Allen, 1997). In particular, affective organizational commitment holds very important implications at all organizational levels (e.g., turnover rates, performance, and citizenship behavior). Whereas previous research has evinced the posi...