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Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment

Forced downsizing is a tool that used by organization to reduce the workforce and payroll. Majority of studies on forced downsizing were conducted in developed countries while few investigated this downsizing in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of forced d...

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Main Author: Mansour Alshrif Alhammali Ali
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://ddms.usim.edu.my:80/jspui/handle/123456789/17825
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spelling my.usim-178252019-04-08T02:25:55Z Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment Mansour Alshrif Alhammali Ali Forced downsizing is a tool that used by organization to reduce the workforce and payroll. Majority of studies on forced downsizing were conducted in developed countries while few investigated this downsizing in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of forced downsizing on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. The study also investigated the mediating role of organizational commitment on the relationship between downsizing and job satisfaction. Building on the literature, the study proposed that downsizing has direct effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction. The study also proposed a direct and mediating role of organizational commitment. Data was collected from employees at the Libyan Education Ministry using non-probability sampling techniques. The data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. The findings indicated that the effect of downsizing on the job satisfaction is negative. In addition, the findings showed that forced downsizing affect negatively the affective, continuance, and normative commitment of the employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. Organizational commitment represented by its dimensions such affective, continuance, and normative commitment have positive direct effects on job satisfaction. The finding also showed that organizational commitment (affective, continuance, and normative commitment) have full mediating role between the forced downsizing and the job satisfaction of employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. The findings of this study were discussed and compared with the findings of previous studies. Implications of the study as well as the limitation and the direction of future work were highlighted. 2019-04-08T02:25:55Z 2019-04-08T02:25:55Z 2018-06 Thesis http://ddms.usim.edu.my:80/jspui/handle/123456789/17825 en Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
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description Forced downsizing is a tool that used by organization to reduce the workforce and payroll. Majority of studies on forced downsizing were conducted in developed countries while few investigated this downsizing in developing countries. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of forced downsizing on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. The study also investigated the mediating role of organizational commitment on the relationship between downsizing and job satisfaction. Building on the literature, the study proposed that downsizing has direct effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction. The study also proposed a direct and mediating role of organizational commitment. Data was collected from employees at the Libyan Education Ministry using non-probability sampling techniques. The data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS. The findings indicated that the effect of downsizing on the job satisfaction is negative. In addition, the findings showed that forced downsizing affect negatively the affective, continuance, and normative commitment of the employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. Organizational commitment represented by its dimensions such affective, continuance, and normative commitment have positive direct effects on job satisfaction. The finding also showed that organizational commitment (affective, continuance, and normative commitment) have full mediating role between the forced downsizing and the job satisfaction of employees at the Libyan Education Ministry. The findings of this study were discussed and compared with the findings of previous studies. Implications of the study as well as the limitation and the direction of future work were highlighted.
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Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
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title Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
title_short Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
title_full Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
title_fullStr Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
title_full_unstemmed Determining the Impact of forced Downsizing strategy on survivors' job satisfaction in Libyan educational sector:The mediating role of organizational commitment
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