One Step Ahead: Examining New Predictors of Affective Organizational and Occupational Commitment

Psychosocial Environment of Universities: How Satisfied are Academics with Work-Related Factors?

“…With regard to housing allowances for instance, Ghafoor (2012) in a study found that housing allowances paid to university academics are not enough to facilitate obtaining suitable accommodation in the open market. Similarly, other related studies further suggest that heavy workloads due to increase in student numbers as well as assignments to teach large classes may have negative effects on the health and psychosocial well-being of university academics (Yousaf, 2010;Metcalf, Rolfe & Weale, 2005). According to Tettey (2006), in most African universities, there is congestion in lecture theatres and laboratories and overall limited facilities with which to provide effective teaching and learning.…”

Teachers' work engagement : a deeper understanding of the role of job and personal resources in relationship to work engagement, its antecedents, and its outcomes

“…positive relationship with work engagement and can as such be regarded general characteristics of work or personal resources, also more context research in which it was found that intrinsic motivation (challenge) was related to occupational affective commitment, mediated by dedication and absorption as aspects of work engagement (Yousaf, 2010). Further depending on the context of the work: for example, the interaction with patients in health care organizations.…”