Purpose of the article: This study investigated contribution organisational culture to three dimensions commitment (normative, affective and continuance) academic staff as moderated by job satisfaction.Methodology/methods: The adopted quantitative method using a descriptive survey. One hundred seventy-four (174) academics in Lagos, Nigeria selected through non-probabilistic methods participated...

Why are there many projects in some application areas and none in others? Why can you find in the same industry companies which have implemented new technologies and others which are just watching? The Italian Permanent Observatory on RFId, promoted by the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano has tackled a two-year research program, involving more than 300 companies with more than 500 ...

Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture for multiagent systems, which we dub spheres of commitment. We identify the key operations on commitments and multiagent systems. We distinguish between explicit and implicit commitments. Multiagent systems, viewed as sph...

The purpose of this research is to study empirically the effect autonomy in joining and legitimation succession towards successors’ commitment a family business. This conducted with sample 109 successor businesses at UC Family Business Community. shows that or freedom making choices has significant on forming affective commitment, while also influence lower level. Autonomy form normative Thestu...

One of the most popular ways to improve the software development capability in organizations is to embark upon a Software Process Improvement (SPI) program often based on a normative model. Main concerns in such a SPI program includes creating commitment towards SPI, involving all parts of the organization in the SPI program, and creating opportunities for learning. We suggest the use of projec...

families at the community level, all too often lose out to psychiatric and bio-medical interventions. A commitment to human rights lies at the heart of the UN’s normative framework. Any hierarchy within human rights prioritising one right or one group of rights over another, or one population over others, has inevitable detrimental outcomes and leads to systemic violations of human rights. Sele...

Recent evidence from laboratory experiments suggests that important disparities exist between willingness to pay (WTP) and compensation demanded for the same good. Because a fundamental postulate in neoclassical theory is that with small income effects and many available substitutes, the willingness to accept (WTA) and WTP measures of value for a commodity should be roughly equivalent, this fin...

The objectives in this study were to identify the indicators of occupational stress for academic staff in South African higher education institutions, to analyse the differences between the occupational stress of different demographic groups, and to investigate whether occupational stressors predict ill health and a lack of organisational commitment of academics in higher education institutions...