Choi Sang Long; Lim Zhi Yong; Tan Wee Chuen
Volume 3, Issue 10 , October 2016, , Pages 572-598
Abstract
This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the ...
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This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the questionnaire was distributed to the person in charge in order to distribute to his colleagues. The prepared questionnaire which covered dimensions of transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, and affective organizational commitment was adapted from Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and other research. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing data. Pearson Correlation Analysis will be used to measure the relationship in linear correlation between two numerical data variables, Regression and Multiple Regression analysis was used to test single or multiple independent variables and one dependent variable. Inspirational motivation has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. The finding showed that leadership styles have a very strong relationship with affective organizational commitment. By further dividing into two different leadership styles, the transformational leadership style has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment while the transactional leadership style has a significant and weak positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. Even both leadership styles have contributed to the affective organizational commitment, the transformational leadership style contributes the most to the affective organizational commitment followed by transactional leadership style.
Sothan Yoeung; Li Baoku; Wu Zheng Xiang
Volume 3, Issue 7 , July 2016, , Pages 399-410
Abstract
The paper aims to study the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing; organizational commitment and employee creativity; knowledge sharing and employee creativity; and the knowledge sharing plays as mediator role. Simple sizes of 342 respondents from 17 four and five star ...
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The paper aims to study the relationship between organizational commitment and knowledge sharing; organizational commitment and employee creativity; knowledge sharing and employee creativity; and the knowledge sharing plays as mediator role. Simple sizes of 342 respondents from 17 four and five star hotels were collected in Cambodia. In order to achieve the purposes of this study and test the hypotheses, so that structural equation model (SEM) was employed. Results revealed that organizational commitment have influence on knowledge sharing and employee creativity, respectively; knowledge sharing has influence on employee creativity; and knowledge sharing also plays as partially mediated between organizational commitment and employee creativity. The finding is to fulfill the gap of literature and empirical study.