Work Values and Service-Oriented Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Mediation of Psychological Contract and Professional Commitment: A Case of Students in Taiwan Police College

Work Values of Jordanian Fresh Graduates

“…These results are inline with previous research which indicates that males ask for more influence and authority and opportunity to be creative while females prefer higher level of independence and privacy (Bayrkova, 2015;Ryckman, & Houston, 2003;Martin & Osterling, 2014, Chen & Kao, 2012Lyons, Higgins, & Duxbury, 2010;Hagström & Kjellberg, 2007). However, Jordanian culture is a masculine one, and may affect our results and influence males to value jobs that have higher financial rewards as females are not expected to provide financial help to the family, like the western culture, but males are.…”

The effect of organizational citizenship behavior on organizational commitment

“…For example, Salehi and Gholtash (2011) in Iran showed that variable of organizational commitment had a positive effect on the OCB. Also, a review of the previous studies such as Meyer and Allen (1990), Ensher et al (2001), Gautam et al (2005), Haigh and Pfau (2006), Liu (2009), Lavelle et al (2009), Ng and Feldman (2011, Morin et al (2011), Chen andKao (2012), and Islam et al (2012) indicates that positive OCB is effective on organizational commitment. Therefore, these results show that physical education managers, based on the proposed strategies, should be able to increase rate of staff's organizational commitment.…”

“…Mirabizadeh and Gheitasi (2012) in Iran at a study entitled ''Examining the organizational citizenship behavior as the outcome of organizational commitment: Case study of universities in Ilam'' concluded that educational opportunities, worklife policy, and empowerment activities had strong positive relationship with organizational commitment; and organizational commitment also influenced OCB accordingly (Mirabizadeh and Gheitasi 2012). Chen and Kao (2012) (Chen and Kao 2012). Results of the previous researches show that commitment is the predictive of OCB because it significantly impacts on OCB (Liu 2009;Islam et al 2012).…”

The Role of Work Life Quality towards Teacherrs Professional Commitment

“…The research instrument used is made by Swamy [20] The number of items QWL scale is 42 consisting of 9 aspects, namely: (1) environment, (2) organizational culture and climate, (3) relations (4) training and development, (5) compensation and rewards, (6) facilities, (7) job satisfaction and security, (8) autonomy, and (9) accurate sources. The research instrument used is a questionnaire about the scale of professional commitment and the scale of competence.…”

“…Nevertheless, some studies discussing it find that Advice network across divisions and Perceived organizational culture are correlated with professional commitment to nurses [24], achievement motivation influences affective and normative commitment to profession [5], competence has positive impact to affective commitment, commitment to continuity, and normative commitment to the profession [4]. Another study says that the value employees have in work has a positive effect on professional commitment [6] Previous studies have shown that job satisfaction has a positive correlation with professional commitment [3] [17], which means that employees who are satisfied with their work will be followed by increased professional commitment. The concept of job satisfaction has similarities with the definition of quality of work life, that is the evaluation of all things that have been obtained by employees in their work.…”