Cover Image

Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes

Globalisation has broaden the horizon of operations for many corporate organisations or business firms or public organisations which aspire to acquaint themselves with other global players.This is where the commitment and competency of their workforce are of paramount important that the management h...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ismail, Zakaria, Omar, Abdullah
Format: Monograph
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006
Subjects:
L Education (General)
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/1/Zak.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/3/1.Zakaria%20Ismail.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/
http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000241750
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.uum.repo.7826
record_format eprints
spelling my.uum.repo.78262014-07-10T01:48:16Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/ Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes Ismail, Zakaria Omar, Abdullah L Education (General) Globalisation has broaden the horizon of operations for many corporate organisations or business firms or public organisations which aspire to acquaint themselves with other global players.This is where the commitment and competency of their workforce are of paramount important that the management has to consider them seriously.It is vital as their competitiveness is contingent on this precious asset, by virtue of its exclusiveness, where ‘people’ cannot be copied easily.The ‘people’ is and would always be at the centre stage, particularly under the present construct of the emerging knowledge-based economies around the globe.The performance of the leading economies of the world, like the US, UK, Japan, Germany and other emerging economies in Asia, such as China and India will be very much depending on the merit and ability of their workforce to surge the challenges ahead.In this instance, knowledge workers’ expertise, contributions and commitments are extremely important.They have to be nurtured, managed and taken care of their issues correctly and adequately. Hence, it is important for organizations to know the special needs and motivations of knowledge workers if they are to successfully utilize their skills and retain them in the organization. This paper examined the influence of selected antecedents (professional commitment, job autonomy, traditional retention strategies, career planning, job opportunity, job satisfaction and learning opportunity) on three types of organizational commitment: affective, continuance and normative.For this purpose, a total number of 350 questionnaires were distributed to computer and IT specialists who are serving in the organizations that spearheaded computer and IT research and development in Malaysia.Only 191 questionnaires were returned (a response rate of 55 percent) and used for further analyses.Correlation analysis indicated that affective commitment was significantly correlated with career planning (negative), traditional retention strategies (negative) and learning opportunity (negative), while continuance and normative commitments were not correlated with any of the antecedents.Regression analyses indicated that affective commitment was positively affected by job satisfaction, and continuance commitment by traditional retention strategies (positive), career planning and (positive) and job autonomy (negative). Normative commitment was only positively affected by job satisfaction.The intention to leave was significantly and negatively correlated with all forms of the organizational commitment.The report also discussed implications of the study to human resource management practices and future direction of research in this area. Universiti Utara Malaysia 2006 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/1/Zak.pdf application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/3/1.Zakaria%20Ismail.pdf Ismail, Zakaria and Omar, Abdullah (2006) Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes. Project Report. Universiti Utara Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000241750
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
building UUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Utara Malaysia
content_source UUM Institutionali Repository
url_provider http://repo.uum.edu.my/
language English
English
topic L Education (General)
spellingShingle L Education (General)
Ismail, Zakaria
Omar, Abdullah
Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
description Globalisation has broaden the horizon of operations for many corporate organisations or business firms or public organisations which aspire to acquaint themselves with other global players.This is where the commitment and competency of their workforce are of paramount important that the management has to consider them seriously.It is vital as their competitiveness is contingent on this precious asset, by virtue of its exclusiveness, where ‘people’ cannot be copied easily.The ‘people’ is and would always be at the centre stage, particularly under the present construct of the emerging knowledge-based economies around the globe.The performance of the leading economies of the world, like the US, UK, Japan, Germany and other emerging economies in Asia, such as China and India will be very much depending on the merit and ability of their workforce to surge the challenges ahead.In this instance, knowledge workers’ expertise, contributions and commitments are extremely important.They have to be nurtured, managed and taken care of their issues correctly and adequately. Hence, it is important for organizations to know the special needs and motivations of knowledge workers if they are to successfully utilize their skills and retain them in the organization. This paper examined the influence of selected antecedents (professional commitment, job autonomy, traditional retention strategies, career planning, job opportunity, job satisfaction and learning opportunity) on three types of organizational commitment: affective, continuance and normative.For this purpose, a total number of 350 questionnaires were distributed to computer and IT specialists who are serving in the organizations that spearheaded computer and IT research and development in Malaysia.Only 191 questionnaires were returned (a response rate of 55 percent) and used for further analyses.Correlation analysis indicated that affective commitment was significantly correlated with career planning (negative), traditional retention strategies (negative) and learning opportunity (negative), while continuance and normative commitments were not correlated with any of the antecedents.Regression analyses indicated that affective commitment was positively affected by job satisfaction, and continuance commitment by traditional retention strategies (positive), career planning and (positive) and job autonomy (negative). Normative commitment was only positively affected by job satisfaction.The intention to leave was significantly and negatively correlated with all forms of the organizational commitment.The report also discussed implications of the study to human resource management practices and future direction of research in this area.
format Monograph
author Ismail, Zakaria
Omar, Abdullah
author_facet Ismail, Zakaria
Omar, Abdullah
author_sort Ismail, Zakaria
title Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
title_short Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
title_full Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
title_fullStr Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
title_full_unstemmed Commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: An evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
title_sort commitment of knowledge workers to their organizations: an evaluation of antecedents, levels and behavioral outcomes
publisher Universiti Utara Malaysia
publishDate 2006
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/1/Zak.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/3/1.Zakaria%20Ismail.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/7826/
http://lintas.uum.edu.my:8080/elmu/index.jsp?module=webopac-l&action=fullDisplayRetriever.jsp&szMaterialNo=0000241750
_version_ 1644279653193482240
score 13.211869

Similar Items