Organizational commitment in Malaysian public university: An evidence via social network analysis

• Main Authors: Yusoff, Nur Syahidah, Djauhari, Maman A., Sharif, Shamshuritawati, Suleiman, Ebi Shahrin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IJENS Publisher, Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2012
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/19404/1/IJBAS-IJENS%2012%20%2005%202012%2017-21.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/19404/; http://ijens.org/Vol_12_I_05/1217804-05-0909-IJBAS-IJENS.pdf

This paper deals with social network approach to understand an organizational management problem in Malaysian public university. Four groups of factors, i.e.,workplace spirituality, effective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment are used to quantify the level of organizational commitment.In total, there are 40 characteristics representing those factors. Based on the approach it is evidence that work are spirituality and effective commitment should be more attention by the university management.Each characteristic is considered as a member of social group and the relationship among them as social relationship.