F EW PHYSICIANS today believe that they are prac t i c ing in the “golden age” of medicine. Comprehensive social, technological, political, and economic changes challenge their adaptive resources. They also confront the forces of bureaucratization and corporatization that pressure them to subordinate their professional autonomy and control to other systems, and, in some cases, to place corporat...

Studies about Information Technology (IT) professionals have shown that occupational commitment can be influenced by several factors. However, there is little empirical evidence about the relationship between the adaptation of the cultural features of the IT occupation and the level of commitment to this occupation. In a previous research study conducted by Guzman, Stanton and associates (2006)...

Jeri Dobbs was an early pioneer in our field who served with distinction his entire career. One wonders why he was so involved?—probably, initially out of a sense of doing his share in promoting our fledgling profession and then surely as a committed volunteer for other activities as his demonstrated accomplishments manifested. For him, and many of that era, performing well clinically was not e...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among employees’ empowerment, organizational commitment and job commitment in physical education organization of tehran province. the statistical population included all personnel in physical education organization of tehran province out of which 150 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling. a) spreitzer's (1995) em...

This paper aimed at examining the impact of threat professional obsolescence, updating as play or work, perceived work overload, exhaustion, affective commitment, on turnover and turnaway intentions IT professionals in Mauritius. A quantitative, self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 158 professionals. Contrary previous studies, overload negatively related exhaustion not ...

the study attempted to look at the influence of individual factors (creative behavior and practical intelligence), process factors (participation in decision making and quality of communication) and context factors (trust in management and history of change) on employee readiness for change to transformational changes. commitment to change and its three dimensions- affective, continuance and no...

moral distress and professional stress are common problems that can have adverse effects on nurses, patients, and the healthcare system as a whole. thus, this cross-sectional study aims to examine the relationship between moral distress, professional stress, and intent to stay in the nursing profession. two hundred and twenty full-time nurses employed at teaching hospitals in the eastern region...