The aim of this study was to investigate the predictors of employees’ affective commitment to an organization. In doing this, we examined the influence of individual work experience and the social relationship it embraced. Three predictors were examined: internal-motivation to remain, job challenge, and workload. All three were significant and positive predictors of affective commitment. We also tested these relationships at different levels of leadership and harmonious co-worker relationships. Results here indicated higher organizational commitment when the supervisor climate was more pleasant. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
Purpose
The goal of this research is 1) to check if shopping prescription consciousness is a fundamental decision-making characteristic, 2) to know its weight and position into consumer decision-making styles (DMS), and 3) to compare results between France and China.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative survey using the Consumer Styles Inventory (Sproles and Kendall, 1986) is done with 308 French and 221 Chinese pet food buyers. Factorial, multivariance, clustering and discriminant analyses are run.
Findings
Findings reveal that shopping prescription consciousness is a fundamental decision-making characteristic. Although this concept scores the same in both cultures, correlations between shopping prescription and other characteristics vary from a culture to another, showing a different prescription follower profile. In addition, opposite to our expectations prescription consciousness has a discriminant role on DMS in France but not in China. Finally, culture impacts overall DMS.
Research limitations/implications
The Chinese sample is weak. This study must be replicated in more product categories and involve more countries.
This paper attempts to enrich prescribed consumption knowledge in a cross-cultural context.
Practical implications
This paper 1) enriches academic understanding of the decision delegation concept, in a cross-cultural context, and 2) encourages organizations involved in complex products to set up loyalty qualitative programs and prescriber networks to ease shopping decision and consequently increase sales.
Originality/value
This is the first time that decision delegation and prescription is studied according to decision-making styles in a cross-cultural context.
Abstract. Healthcare projects with apparent productivity gaps require all available IT innovation mechanisms. The objective of this study is to investigate the predictors of the development of IT innovation mechanisms to improving healthcare business. This includes the utilization of the panel data in healthcare projects and the analysis of the relationship between IT innovation mechanisms and operational decision-making. The paper indicates that the implementation of innovative IT technology has a significant positive effect on the healthcare project productivity in Canadian hospitals.
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