INTRODUCTION Individual characteristics are important factors influencing organizational commitment. Also, committed human resources can lead organizations to performance improvement as well as personal and organizational achievements. This research aimed to determine the association between organizational commitment and personality traits among faculty members of Ahvaz Jundishapur University o...

Human resources and knowledge management are considered to be one of the most important factors within organizations that help them to achieve a competitive advantage. However, organizations should take care of the human factor and increase their commitment within organizations to take advantage of the knowledge within them. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship betwee...

Although much research in the IS field has examined IS adoption, less is known about post-adoption behavior among IS users, especially when competing alternatives are available. Incorporating commitment theory from social psychology and management science literature, this paper proposes an IS continuance model that explains why some IS technologies enjoy continued use after adoption and others ...

many previous studies used leader - member exchange to explain the quality relationship between employees and supervisors. however, in previous studies, the mechanism of this theory in creativity is not so clear. thus, this study defines the role of leaders in creating a culture of organizational learning using normative approach to examine the relationship between communication quality leader ...

Article history: Received 7 November 2012 Available online 4 February 2013 We examined how affective (AC), normative (NC), perceived sacrifice (PS), and few alternatives (FA) commitments combine to form profiles and determine turnover intention and turnover.We theorized that three mechanisms account for how profiles operate, i.e., the degree to which membership is internally regulated, the perc...

The authors investigate the relationship between family policy and women's attachment to the labor market, focusing specifically on policy feedback on women's subjective work commitment. They utilize a quasi-experimental design to identify normative policy effects from changes in mothers' work commitment in conjunction with two policy changes that significantly extended the length of statutory ...

This paper develops a theory of optimal provision of commitment devices to people who value both commitment and ‡exibility, and whose preferences di¤er in the degree of time inconsistency. If time inconsistency is observable, then both a planner and a monopolist provide devices that help each person commit to the e¢ cient level of ‡exibility. But the combination of unobservable time inconsisten...

Induced hypocrisy is considered as a new dissonance paradigm, in which two factors (normative commitment and mindfulness of past transgressions), are combined. The inconsistency between ‘what I am preaching’ and ‘what I have done’ is reduced via behavioral change in line with the prior preach. In this study, we compared two different operationalizations of commitment factor. In a paradigmatic c...

The need for teamwork has grown significantly in today's organizations. Especially for online game communities, teamwork is an important means of online game players' engagement. This study aims to investigate the impacts of trust on players' teamwork with affective commitment and normative commitment as mediators. Furthermore, this research includes team experience as a moderator to compare th...