Advancements in communication technologies continue to support the development of geographically-distributed teams. Yet as this practice grows, managers and staff remain concerned about the impact of working physically away from each other. This study theorizes social capital as the primary mechanism by which the level of distribution of individuals in teams and the use of communication technol...

This paper reinvestigates the impact of social networking site use by employees on job performance by conducting a methodological replication of Moqbel, Nevo, and Kock (2013) using samples (N=139) from Pakistan. In both studies, social networking site use has significant effects on organizational commitment and job satisfaction, and job satisfaction also has a significant impact on job performa...

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...

In recent years, the importance of defining a standard framework for agent communication language (ACL) has been widely recognized. However, classical proposals (mentalistic semantics and social semantics) fail to meet the objectives of verifiability and flexibility required in complex interactions involving heterogenous agents possibly designed by different programmers. In this paper we propos...

objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between perceived organizational justice and organizational commitment of physical education teachers in west azerbaijan province. methods: research method is descriptive-correlation conducted using the field method. statistical population includes physical education teachers in west azerbaijan which are 1091 persons. the samp...

goal: the current study was performed in order to construct and normalize the marital commitment inventory amongst the students of iran’s state universities. method: this is a descriptive research. the inventory was constructed via delphi technique based on johnson’s theoretical framework. it had 37 items and 2 additional items for detecting lies. in this way 500 persons were selected from the ...

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...

employees' job attitudes play an important role in realizing the organizational goals. one of important factors in increasing organizational commitment and employees' extra-job behaviors is to secure organizational identity. one of jobs requiring a high level of organizational identity, loyalty, organizational commitment and doing extra-job behaviors is teaching in high-schools. realization of ...