The Affective Commitment of Academics in a University in Botswana

Autor/inn/en	Nkhukhu-Orlando, Esther; Brown, Byron; Wilson, Debra Rose; Forcheh, Ntonghanwah; Linn, James G.; Fako, Thabo T.
Titel	The Affective Commitment of Academics in a University in Botswana
Quelle	In: International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 11 (2019) 2, S.12-19 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2141-6656
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Job Performance; Universities; Affective Behavior; Correlation; Electronic Mail; Foreign Countries; Productivity; Teacher Attitudes; Prediction; College Administration; Policy Formation; Participative Decision Making; Job Satisfaction; Botswana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; University; Universität; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Korrelation; Elektronischer Briefkasten; Ausland; Produktivität; Lehrerverhalten; Vorhersage; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Politische Betätigung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit
Abstract	Affective commitment remains an essential factor in key outcomes such as work performance and productivity, and has been shown to have the strongest positive relation with positive work behaviours when compared with normative commitment and continuance commitment. Using a sample of 164 academic employees at the University of Botswana, this study assessed the extent to which they had affective commitment to the organization. We also investigated factors that are associated with affective commitment and those that predict affective commitment of academic employees. The study found that only 34.1% of academic employees sampled had affective commitment. Logistic regression analyses identified three predictors of affective commitment among academic employees. They are satisfaction with management, contribution to policy making, and responding to emails. While some researchers have found that associations between affective commitment and demographic variables were generally low or weak, this study found no significant associations between demographic factors and affective commitment. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Academic Journals. e-mail: IJEAPS@academicjournals.org; Web site: http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJEAPS
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01