The Influence of Differential Leadership on Employees’Affective Commitment:A Perspective of the Insiders and Outsiders

From the perspective of the insiders and outsiders,this study explores the influence of differential leadership on employees’affective commitment and the moderating effect of leader’s self-enhancing humor and individual traditionality.The results show that the differential leadership has a positive impact on the organizational affective commitment of employees,the leader’s self-enhancing humor and the employees’traditionality play a positive regulatory role respectively.Moreover,compared with the outsiders,the low traditionality has a stronger influence on the relationship between differential leadership and organizational affective commitment of the insiders.This paper enriches the research on the influence of leadership style on employee’s affective commitment,proposes and verifies the moderation of leader’s self-enhancing humor and employee’s traditionality,which complements the boundary conditions for the effectiveness of differential leadership style.

The effects of colleague solidarity and affective commitment on nurses＇ intent to stay

Objective： The purpose of this paper was to determine the effects of colleague solidarity and affective commit- ment on intent to stay among nurses, and to provide the basis for developing more effective retention strategies. Methods： A cross-sectional survey was carried out and a sample of 346 registered nurses was recruited in convenience sampling method from three tertiary hospitals in Tianjin, China. A self-administrative questionnaire was used in order to collect data. All analyses were performed using SPSS 17.0 software. Results： The mean scores for colleague soli- darity, a_ffective commitment and intent to stay of nurses were 3.61±0.50, 3.26±0.55, and 3.54±0.67, respectively. The nurses＇ colleague solidarity and each dimension, affective commitment and intent to stay showed a positive correlation （r=0.141-0.709, P〈0.01）. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that emotional solidarity, academic solidarity and a_ffective commitment entered intent to stay regression equation （β=0.170-0.437, P〈0.001） and explained 45.3% of the total variation in nurses＇ intent to stay, and emotional solidarity became the strongest predictor （β=0.437, P〈0.001）. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that affective commitment played a partial moderating role on the relation- ship between colleague solidarity and intent to stay （β=0.174-0.659, P〈0.001）. Conclusion： Hospital administrators and managers should develop effective strategies to enhance colleague solidarity and affective commitment among nurses, which will ultimately increase nurses＇ intent to stay.

A study on the current situation and factors influencing the professional commitment of private kindergarten teachers

This study investigated the professional commitment of kindergarten teachers in a private kindergarten located in Jinan,Shandong Province,China.The research employed a questionnaire and utilized correlation analysis to examine the factors influencing the professional commitment of private kindergarten teachers.The findings revealed that the overall level of career commitment among private kindergarten teachers was moderately low.Among the three dimensions of professional commitment,namely,continuance commitment,affective commitment,and normative commitment,the affective commitment dimension exhibited a relatively high level,whereas the continuance commitment and normative commitment dimensions showed relatively low levels.Significant differences in professional commitment levels were observed based on teacher age,education level,age of children,salary,and class size.However,no significant differences were found based on teacher specialty,position,and teaching experience.