Organizational commitment

provides the conceptual and theoretical definition and related research studies on various organizational and employee factors which may influence the public service motivation (PSM) of the public sector employees in other cultural context. This portion will mostly focus on public service motivation, and factors affecting the same such as organizational culture, demographic factors, organizational commitment and work motivation, among others. Public Service Motivation There are many definitions…

Organizational culture is one of the most fascinating and exclusive topics for management researchers. It has been defined as a programming of mind, which distinguishes the member of one organization from one another (Hofstede, 1991) or a system of shared values and believes within an organization, which guides the behaviour of the employee (from French et al. 2008). Deal & Kennedy’s (1982) phrase ‘the way we do things round here’ a definition that might more properly describe ‘culture’, but…

This paper focuses on one of the most important point in an organization—employee motivation. As a sustaining goal-directed behavior, employee motivation affects organization’s turnover rate and organizational effectiveness. In order to increase company’s productivity, understanding how to raise employee motivation is crucial. Based on the six needs, managers can increase the motivation by fulfill employees’ needs, create incentives, communicate, and empower employees. Every coin has two sides.…

“Analyzing the Lincoln Electric Company to Determine its Organizational Culture” This essay uses the framework from chapter eight of the textbook to analyze the Lincoln Electric Company in determine its organizational culture. The first feature to be analyzed is the influence of the founders on the company from when it started until now. The second group of features to be analyzed at the Lincoln Electric Company includes its incentive management plan, its performance appraisal system, its…

Volunteers have been an important piece of many non-for-profit organizations over the years. Volunteers provide free labor and time, performing tasks for organizations helping them achieve goals. For example, Habitat for Humanity is a non-for-profit organization that focuses on providing housing for people in poverty. Habitat relies on volunteers to help build and repair homes. To date, Habitat for Humanity has built of repaired of 1 million homes for over 5 million people living in poverty…

Organizational culture is defined as actions and attitudes of individuals and groups toward one another and towards the organization as a whole, and its effect on the organization's functioning and performance. It is the careful selection of tailor-made organizational culture features suitable to the organization and its people that ensure a win-win situation for the organization, its people and valuable customers. Southwest was established in 1967 by Rolling King and Herb Kelleher as an…

The first part of my assessment covered various areas. One of the areas covered my basic personality. I found that I scored highest on my how much I am open to mew experiences. This means that I tend to have wide range of interests. In the Jungian 16-Type personality test, it revealed that I am reserved and creative and could possibly succeed as poet, missionary or an educational consultant. These three areas are areas that I have interested in, seeing as though I have written poetry and also…

This strategic management class was very different from the undergraduate strategic management class that I took two years ago. In the undergraduate class the main focus was mainly GLO-BUS with online tests from information out of the textbook. In the graduate strategic management class there was more focus on case work along with GLO-BUS and testing from information in the textbook. The incorporation of the case work taught the students more about real world scenarios that is hard to teach…

American society. As early as the 1700s, there has been a deep interest in organizational behavior, human motivation and productivity. Rooted in the industrial revolution of the 1700s, Classical Organization Theory was the forerunner in the concept of organizational theory, the first of its kind. Classic Organization Theory was based primarily on the assumptions of how organizations worked or should work. The primary organizational assumptions were that economic goals and their…

NSWC Crane would benefit from anti-gaming policy. However, this policy requires more than just implementation. It will also need to be monitored regularly and updated as new forms of gaming are discovered. Pascal Courty and Gerald Marschke encountered this process as they studied a federal job-training program in their article, Making Government Accountable: Lessons from a Federal Job Training Program. They found that after a federal agency created performance measures, the employees learned how…