One major challenge faced by expatriate managers is developing reasonable levels of worker commitment and satisfaction among host nation employees. This study adds to the growing knowledge base regarding worker motivation, commitment, satisfaction, and company image among automotive workers in Mexico. This paper uses a longitudinal MTMM methodology to verify attributes of job attitudes surrounding satisfaction and commitment thereby expanding the methodology and interpretation of prior research. Questionnaire, interview, and observational data collected over a 42-month period were used to uncover previously unexplored components to commitment and job satisfaction among Mexican workers. Results of our analyses indicated that work satisfaction, supervision, coworker relationships, pay, and promotion potential were predictive of overall job satisfaction. Also predictive of overall job satisfaction were supervisor conduct, and perception of company financial and social status. Behavioral, affective, and continuance commitment were predicted by sex, education, directive conduct, organizational status, and satisfaction with supervision. The traditional positive relationship between job commitment and job satisfaction was not supported.

Managers need to be able to understand whether the constructs of organizational commitment apply cross culturally. This study adds to a growing knowledge base regarding organizational commitment internationally, and uses workers in government controlled, mixed economy, and privately owned businesses in China’s interior. The study uses questionnaires of antecedents of commitment and tests Mowday et al’s (1979) OCQ and Meyer and Allen’s (1991) ACS, NCS, CCS. While we were are able to verify some antecedent conditions surrounding Mowday et al (1979) and Meyer and Allen’s (1991) commitment measures, we discovered the conditions surrounding commitment in persons who live outside the commercial zones may be more complicated than theory predicts. Artifacts that may modify antecedent‐commitment main include culture, language, firm ownership/control, and expectations of workers moving from government employment more market based jobs. We suggest that more study is required in relationship to conceptual space, theory development, measurement, validation, and analysis in former centrally planned and communistic countries. As is usually true in China, things are not as straightforward or simple as they seem. This study seems to verify that sentiment.

<p>A previous study (Peterson, 1993) of the theory of planned behavior (TPB, Ajzen, 1985, Ajzen and Fishbein, 2005) was re-visited through examining student questionnaires in a Mountain States liberal artscollege. The objective was to develop understanding into how the current generation of undergraduates develops voting intentions and behaviorsfor the 2012 general election.The results of the study generally confirmed the support for TPB found in the 1992 version, however, for this study additional moderating variables exploring the influence of satirical, social, and cable news media on voting opinions, intention, and behavior. In this regard, opinions related to the influence of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart®, The Colbert Report®, social media like Facebook® and Twitter®, and the influence of cable news networks like FOX®, MSNBC®, and Current TV® were explored.While cable television networks showed no influence on this generation’s knowledge, attitude, or behavioral intent, the role of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart® and The Colbert Report® showed significant predictive value.</p><p> </p>

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This paper covers a methodology for rolling out large initiatives in non-linear ways. Based on cooperation network formation theory, a cooperation network can be constructed from the multi-distance perspective under variables that better align business with the SDGs of the UN, the Paris Accord and the agendas of international organizations. It is apparent that business organizations play a central role in the addressing of the SDGs, however all that glitters isn’t gold. There is poor transparency and rampant corruption in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Russia. With this in mind, a structure can be built that anyone can master with the use of an app. It would take a very large initiative to bring a structure to bear that transcended ad hoc assessment for superficiality and judgement. It would be highly possible to build assessment and transparency structures that allow a within and between company, cultural, and unilateral or multilateral view as well as a larger and more granular examination of industry, company reputation, strategy, finances, supply chain, delivery, and interactions with government and society. This paper proposes a simple mechanism using factor analysis and regression that can be built into the structure of app functionality. To use this, it is important to gather qualitative data, but more so to select quantitative data from which greatest opportunities can be derived and compared with qualitative data on culture and capacious capital structures. Data can be demographic, corporate operations, cultural typology, human development, transparency, industrial or economic weakness.