Linking organizational support to employee commitment: evidence from hotel industry of China

Autor: Yuanqiong He, Kin Keung Lai, Yagang Lu
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 22:197-217
ISSN: 1466-4399
0958-5192
Popis: Employee commitment is an important issue for both practitioners and academicians. Although antecedents of employee commitment have been examined in previous literature, organizational support, which is an important organizational characteristic to be developed by managers, and its relationship with employee commitment have not attracted enough academic attention nowadays. Meanwhile, enough empirical evidence of relationship between various dimensions of employee commitment, such as affective and normative commitments is not there. This article focuses on exploring the relationships among organizational support, affective commitment, and normative commitment, based on the data from the hotel industry of China. The results indicate that affective commitment has significant positive effect on normative commitment. Among the three dimensions of organizational support, i.e. managerial support, coworker relationship, and role ambiguity, managerial support has the greatest influence on employee commitment. Theo...
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