The corporate governance literature on potential remedies to the agency problem has focused largely on external control mechanisms, especially board independence. We instead consider how an internal, psychological factor – CEO organizational identification – might influence the extent to...

This paper investigates the impact of perceived organizational support (POS) on performance. We predict that POS will be reciprocated by positive discretionary employee behavior, which in turn has a positive impact on performance. Empirical research on a sample of Dutch construction companies...

This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper...

This paper examines the nature of employment and the conditions of work in five telephone call centres in the telecommunications industry in Australia. Call centre work typically requires high levels of sustained interpersonal interaction with customers which can lead to burnout and employee...

We develop and test a model that relates leadership behaviors, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). We test the model using structural equations with a sample of 116 doctors from Uruguay. Consistent with expectations, our results show that transactional...

The exploration of the relationship between organizational commitment and training is still in its early stages. Although there have been several studies reported on training and organizational commitment in Western countries, very little has been done in respect of the local professionals in...

Avoiding continued investment in poorly performing projects is an important function of management control systems. However, prior research suggests that managers fail to use accounting information indicating that a project is performing poorly to discontinue it; that is, they escalate...

Using a case study approach, this article explores the implications for employees and unions of the introduction of a high commitment management (HCM) model to two Australian workplaces; one a brownfield site, the other a greenfield site. The article assesses the impact of HCM on employees using...

This paper updates previous publications from the Employee Benefit Research Institute that have examined employee tenure data of American workers and related issues. It uses the latest data on tenure from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) and also previous time series