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Showing 1 to 20 of 4332 for “"Commitment"”.
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Perceptions of Commitment
This study investigated differences in level of commitment between married and non-married individuals, effects of demographic variables by age, gender, parenting status, and ethnicity, and determines participant's awareness of and participation in the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) were …
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Commitment and conflict
… contracts between states. States then face a commitment problem when bargaining to prevent war. This dissertation explores three models where this commitment problem can lead to war. The first chapter presents a model that allows for shifts in the distribution of power which play out over an …
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Improving employee commitment
… high performance employees is their level of commitment to an organization's success. This study, at a transportation consulting company, used a needs assessment methodology to identify: (1) What commitment means to employees? (2) Whether people are committed? And, (3) if people are not …
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Predictors of Major Commitment
… factors have been related to forms of career commitment (i.e. affective, continuance, and normative commitment), highlighting that the commitment one feels toward his or her career is a complex variable. Furthermore, commitment has been associated with intent to remain within a profession or …
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Fuel-constrained unit commitment
… constraints, which are often conflicting. Unit commitment, which determines each generator's on/ off status and the power output level, is one of these scheduling activities in the day-to-day operations of the utility companies. The solution of the unit commitment problem minimizes the total …
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Legislative commitment in Congress
… policy wonks with a novel measure of legislative commitment based on these three components and using MCs’ slates of bill sponsorships from 1989 through 2008. Building on previous work on legislative entrepreneurship, I argue that MCs commit to legislating and act as policy wonks based on a …
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Unit commitment for operations
The topic of unit commitment has been and continues to be of interest to many researchers and is a primary operation for most utilities. Past research has utilized integer programming, dynamic programming, linear programming, gradient, and heuristic techniques. This research combines both linear …
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Local Commitment to JOBS
… argument for the importance of a high level of commitment from local departments of social services, area businesses, and community organizations to the implementation of the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) program. It contends that such a commitment is a necessary pre-condition for …
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Interrelationships among trade union commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction and trade union participation
The issue of commitment has received extensive research through the years yet inconsistencies still prevail. This research investigated the relationships between organizational commitment, trade union commitment, job satisfaction and trade union participation. A survey based on the work of Meyer …
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Organizational Commitment, Relationship Commitment and Their Association with Attachment Style and Locus of Control
Organizational commitment (OC) is a psychological state that binds an employee to an organization, and the Three-Component Model of organizational commitment (Meyer and Allen, 1991) posits that employees bind with their organizations as a result of desire (affective commitment), need (continuance …
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Commitment-Based Multiagent Decision Making
… participants, it is the binary relationship of commitment that associates the agents with one another and represents multiagent interactions. Commitments can characterize-from an external viewpoint-not only the interactions between the agents, but also the overall multiagent system behavior. …
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Causal Modeling of Organizational Commitment
… designed to develop a model of organizational commitment by establishing a causal network among three individual characteristics--tenure, work motivation, and job satisfaction--two organizational/structural variables--decentralization and formalization,--and two job facets--the job …
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The professional commitment of actuaries
… the nature and outcomes of the professional commitment of actuaries. The affective and continuance levels of professional commitment among actuaries are high. Overall, actuaries are more committed to their profession than to their employing organisations. Actuaries who have a high affective …
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Commitment in architecture : Russian constructivism
Thesis (M.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1986.
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Commitment in African-American Relationships
This study investigated commitment in the romantic relationships of 16 African-American men and women, eight men and eight women, aged 20-23. Ten participants were currently in a committed relationship and six participants were not currently in a committed relationship at the time of the study. …
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An Examination of Relational Sacrifices: Associations with Daily Commitment and Satisfaction and Tripartite Commitment Experiences
… associations between relational sacrifices and commitment (e.g., daily commitment and tripartite dimensions of commitment). This collection of empirically and conceptually related studies are guided by interdependence and commitment theories. First, in Paper 1, actor-partner interdependence …
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Job Satisfaction and its Relationship to Organizational Commitment and Religious Commitment for Andrews University Employees
… of its employees’ organizational and religious commitment. This study can clarify whether religious commitment has a potentially mediating effect on the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment.</p> <p>Method. As part of this quantitative research study a survey …
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Organizational Commitment: A Three-component Model
Because organizational commitment has been conceptualized and measured in various ways, research examining it has produced a somewhat inconsistent set of results. In the conceptual model guiding the present research, organizational commitment is considered to have three components. The affective …
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