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Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment The Importance of Institutional Context

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In this paper, a model of affective organizational commitment is proposed and tested to capture aspects of the unique institutional context of public organizations, and an analysis of survey data is performed.
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This study proposes and tests a model of affective organizational commitment that seeks to capture aspects of the unique institutional context of public organizations. An analysis of survey data fr...

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Affective Commitment as a Core Essence of Organizational Commitment: An Integrative Literature Review

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for organizational commitment is proposed in this paper, in which affective commitment, or the emotional attachment to the organization, is defined as an important core essence of organizational commitment.
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Public Leadership: A review of the literature and framework for future research

TL;DR: This article analyzed and reviewed the literature on public leadership with a novel combination of bibliometric methods and detected four generic approaches to public leadership (i.e. a functionalist, a behavioural, a biographical and a reformist approach) which differ with regard to their philosophy of science and level of analysis.
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Exploring the job demands–resources model of work engagement in government: Bringing in a psychological perspective

TL;DR: Work engagement refers to an active energetic state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption as discussed by the authors. But despite practitioner's attention for work engagement, few public administrati...
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Change in Public Bureaucracies.

TL;DR: The concept of organizational structure has been studied extensively in organizational theory as discussed by the authors, with the focus on the effects of leadership on organizational structure and the process of bureaucratization, as well as on organizational domains.
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Participative leadership and the organizational commitment of civil servants in China: The mediating effects of trust in supervisor

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined whether participative leadership engenders organizational commitment among Chinese civil servants, and analyzes the mechanisms by which it transmits its effects, and revealed that there was a significant relationship between supervisor-level participative Leadership and the affective and normative commitment of subordinates, but no relationship with continuance commitment.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences

TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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The External Control of Organizations: A Resource Dependence Perspective

TL;DR: The External Control of Organizations as discussed by the authors explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints, and it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable.
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Organizations in Action

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A three-component conceptualization of organizational commitment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors go beyond the existing distinction between attitudinal and behavioral commitment and argue that commitment, as a psychological state, has at least three separable components reflecting a desire (affective commitment), a need (continuance commitment), and an obligation (normative commitment) to maintain employment in an organization.
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