While much has been written and empirically researched about leadership style, little effort has been made to make out what constitutes successful and effective leadership for university teachers of Pakistan. Paternalistic leadership is a promising body of research that has been tailored to the Pakistani context in this study. The research focuses on the impact of two most important dimensions ...

Servant leaders strive selflessly and altruistically to assist others before themselves, work to develop their followers to their greatest potential, and seek to benefit the wider community. This paper examines the trust-based mechanisms by which servant leadership influences organizational commitment in the Chinese public sector, using data from a survey of civil servants. Quantitative analysi...

this study was conducted to investigate the relationship of quality of working life and organizational commitment of agricultural extension experts’ in kerman province, iran. correlational-descriptive research method was used in this study. research sample including 123 experts were selected from 180 ones in kerman agricultural extension sector using krejcie & morgan’s table and proportional st...

Article history: Received 10 March 2010 Available online 16 September 2010 This study tested the mediating role of violation in the relationship between breach and both affective and continuance commitment and the extent to which this mediating role is moderated by exchange imbalance amongst a sample of 103 sales personnel. Results suggest that violation mediated the relationship between breach...

Much of the theoretical and empirical research devoted to affective organizational commitment has been based on the assumption that this form of commitment develops with tenure, displaying a rapid decrease after entry, followed later by a steady increase. The present study used the cross-sequential design, advocated in the life-span development literature, to examine changes in commitment with ...

Previous studies on newcomer socialization have evidenced quite consistently that newcomers’ affective commitment tends to decline in the first years of employment. In this paper, we attempt to explain why a minority of Brazilian newcomers in a governmental organization (N = 194) display growth in commitment (33 per cent) in the first 3 years of employment, despite the fact that the odds are cl...