Reporters and Their Professional and Organizational Commitment

Becker, Lee B.; Sobowale, Idowu; Cobbey, Robin E.

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“…Income was also significantly and positively correlated with the overall commitment (r = 0.137, p = 0.026). This is consistent with the previous findings by Becker et al (1979). Conversely, the position that one holds has a negative effect on affective and the overall commitment.…”

Section: Differences In Commitment Among Demographic Groupssupporting

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“…The results regarding annual income were consistent with previous studies by Becker et al (1979), which found that annual income has positive relationship with affective commitment and overall organizational commitment. Conversely, the position that one holds has negative effect on affective and the overall commitment.…”

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“…They may also believe that they have many job alternatives. Becker et al (1979) found income to be an important predictor of organizational commitment. In addition, organizational position is known to correlate negatively with normative and affective commitment (Tan and Akhtar, 1998).…”

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The association between training and organizational commitment among white‐collar workers in Malaysia

Ahmad¹,

Bakar²

2003

Int J Training Development

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The exploration of the relationship between organizational commitment and training is still in its early stages. Although there have been several studies reported on training and organizational commitment in Western countries, very little has been done in respect of the local professionals in Malaysia. This research investigates the association between five training variables (availability of training, support for training, motivation to learn, training environment and perceived benefits of training), and various aspects of organizational commitment (affective commitment, normative commitment, continuance commitment and overall organizational commitment). The availability of training, support for training, motivation to learn, training environment, perceived benefits of training were all significantly correlated with affective commitment, normative commitment and overall organizational commitment. The training environment and perceived benefits were also significantly correlated with continuance commitment. However the availability of training, support for training and motivation to learn were not significantly correlated with continuance commitment. This suggests that despite other forms of commitment, Malaysian workers do not feel that they need to remain in an organization that has made available the training, given support for the training and were motivated to learn. Otherwise, results suggest that on the whole, training does seem to have an influence on organiza-Training and organizational commitment 167 tional commitment. The practical implication of this is that managers, who are so desirous of enhancing organizational commitment among their subordinates, should pay more attention to training.Annual income was found to correlate positively with affective commitment and overall commitment. Age and tenure were not significant predictors of overall organizational commitment contradicting studies in the West. This demonstrated that Malaysians might have different attitudes towards organizational commitment. The older they are and the longer they stay within an organization do not imply that they will be committed towards their organization. This phenomenon can be attributed to the uncertain business environment in Malaysia.

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The association between training and organizational commitment among white‐collar workers in Malaysia

Ahmad¹,

Bakar²

2003

Int J Training Development

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124

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“…On the contrary, when the journalists evaluated their relative satisfaction with autonomy inside the media organization (practice), they frame autonomy with organizational professionalism, taking a more instrumental stance. In this sense, the normative approach is traded for a more pragmatic one, when taking into account their present and future professional situation (Fengler and Ruß-Mohl, 2008), as well as the commitment they must make to the organization where they belong (Becker et al, 1979;Tuchman, 1978).…”

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Modeling perceived professional autonomy in Chilean journalism

Mellado

Humanes

2012

Journalism

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Based on a survey of 570 Chilean new media journalists, this article examines how they perceive autonomy in their everyday work, the importance they give to autonomy as a professional value, as well as the factors that influence their perceived editorial freedom. The results show that Chilean journalists acknowledge a high level of freedom in making news decisions, but that their conception of autonomy follows two different paths: while the importance given to autonomy is related to the profession’s ideal of public service, their satisfaction with editorial freedom fits into a pragmatic context, associated with their professional and job development. The results also reveal that the factors that better predict professional autonomy are having an editorial position within the media, the assignment of a news beat, perceived political and organizational influences, and the media’s political orientation and geographical location. Economic factors, meanwhile, do not have any direct effect on the journalists’ perceptions.

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“…Journalists are highly committed to their profession and define such commitment as loyalty, pride in their work, getting facts correct, providing multiple sides of a story and playing the role of governmental watchdog (Becker et al, 1979;Gardner et al, 2001;Pew Research Center, 1999). Even though more than 90 percent of journalists are proud to say they are journalists (Pew Research Center, 1999), their commitment has its limits.…”

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Newspaper journalism in crisis: Burnout on the rise, eroding young journalists’ career commitment

Reinardy

2011

Journalism

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The three-component Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey was implemented to examine burnout among newspaper journalists ( N = 770). With a moderate rate of exhaustion, a high rate of cynicism and a moderate rate of professional efficacy, journalists demonstrate higher rates of burnout than presented in previous work. Additionally, journalists expressing intentions to leave the profession ( n = 173) demonstrated high rates of exhaustion and cynicism, and moderate rates of professional efficacy, making them ‘at-risk’ for burnout. Also, 74.5 percent of journalists 34 and younger ( n = 223) either expressed intentions to leave newspaper journalism or answered ‘don’t know’. The most ‘at-risk’ to burnout appear to be young copy editors or page designers working at small newspapers.

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Reporters and Their Professional and Organizational Commitment

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The association between training and organizational commitment among white‐collar workers in Malaysia

The association between training and organizational commitment among white‐collar workers in Malaysia

Modeling perceived professional autonomy in Chilean journalism

Newspaper journalism in crisis: Burnout on the rise, eroding young journalists’ career commitment

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