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Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational Support for Development: The Critical Role of Career Opportunities

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This study found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development and found support for the moderator hypotheses.
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This study examines antecedents and behavioral outcomes of employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We first propose that employees' past participation in formal developmental activities and experience with developmental relationships positively relate to their perceptions of organizational support for development. We then propose that perceived career opportunity within the organization moderates the relationship between organizational support for development and employee performance and turnover. Using a sample of 264 exempt-level employees and their supervisors, we found that participation in training classes, leader-member exchange, and career mentoring were each positively related to employees' perceptions of organizational support for development. We also found support for the moderator hypotheses. Specifically, development support positively related to job performance, but only when perceived career opportunity within the organization was high. Further, development support was associated with reduced voluntary turnover when perceived career opportunity was high, but it was associated with increased turnover when perceived career opportunity was low. Our study demonstrates that social exchange and career motivation theory work together to explain when and how employees' perceptions of organizational support for development relate to turnover and job performance.

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Retention factors and employee organisational commitment at a higher education institution in South Africa

Dasy Muleya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an introduction and background to the study and history of the field of computer science and its application in computer graphics, including a table of contents and a list of FIGURES.

Improving Career Development Opportunities through Rigorous Career Pathways Research. Occasional Paper. RTI Press Publication OP-0037-1703.

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Commitment in students training for caring professions : a focus on student nurses' experience of support

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of plagiarism in the field of bioinformatics.4.2 Acknowledgements and acknowledgements 4.3
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Investigating the dynamic nature of psychological contracts: a study of the coevolution of newcomers' psychological contracts and social networks

Ceren Erdem
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how employees' psychological contracts form and evolve over time conjointly with their social network ties and established a testable two-way process model to capture the antecedents of psychological contracts through pre-entry expectations and social relationships of newcomers.
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Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences

TL;DR: In this article, the Mathematical Basis for Multiple Regression/Correlation and Identification of the Inverse Matrix Elements is presented. But it does not address the problem of missing data.
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Exchange and Power in Social Life

Peter M. Blau
TL;DR: In a seminal work as discussed by the authors, Peter M. Blau used concepts of exchange, reciprocity, imbalance, and power to examine social life and to derive the more complex processes in social structure from the simpler ones.
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The norm of reciprocity: a preliminary statement *

TL;DR: The notion of complementarity and reciprocity in functional theory is explored in this article, enabling a reanalysis of the concepts of "survival" and "exploitation" and the need to distinguish between complementarity, reciprocity, and the generalized moral norm of reciprocity.
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Perceived organizational support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the coherence des croyances des employes dans l'implication de l'organisation a son egard et le role d'un tel soutien organisationnel ainsi que l'ideologie d'echange sur l'absenteisme is discussed.
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Perceived organizational support: A review of the literature.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed more than 70 studies concerning employees' general belief that their work organization values their contribution and cares about their well-being (perceived organizational support; POS) and indicated that 3 major categories of beneficial treatment received by employees were associated with POS.
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