The affective commitment of academics in a university in Botswana
| Autor: | Thabo T. Fako, James G. Linn, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, Debra Rose Wilson, Byron Brown, Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Policy making
05 social sciences General Medicine Organizational commitment Logistic regression Participative decision-making Electronic mail 0506 political science Work performance Job performance 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Job satisfaction Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. 11:12-19 |
| ISSN: | 2141-6656 |
| DOI: | 10.5897/ijeaps2019.0595 |
| Popis: | Affective commitment remains an essential factor in key outcomes such as work performance and productivity, and has been shown to have the strongest positive relation with positive work behaviours when compared with normative commitment and continuance commitment. Using a sample of 164 academic employees at the University of Botswana, this study assessed the extent to which they had affective commitment to the organization. We also investigated factors that are associated with affective commitment and those that predict affective commitment of academic employees. The study found that only 34.1% of academic employees sampled had affective commitment. Logistic regression analyses identified three predictors of affective commitment among academic employees. They are satisfaction with management, contribution to policy making, and responding to emails. While some researchers have found that associations between affective commitment and demographic variables were generally low or weak, this study found no significant associations between demographic factors and affective commitment. Key words: Academic employees, affective commitment, Botswana, management. |
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