A managerial and personal control model: predictions of work alienation and organizational commitment in Hungary |
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| Institution: | 1. Profamilia, Santo Domingo 10401, Dominican Republic;2. Center for Biomedical Research, Population Council, New York, NY 10065, USA;3. Instituto Chileno de Medicina Reproductiva, Santiago 8320165, Chile;4. Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA;5. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27103, USA;1. Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Amazonas, Av. 7 de Setembro, 1975 — Centro, Manaus, AM 69020-120, Brazil;2. Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Av. Pádua Dias 11, Piracicaba, SP 13418-900, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the influence of managerial and personal control upon work-related alienation and organizational commitment in the Eastern-European nation of Hungary. The research identifies the extent to which Western management theory and practices are relevant to transitional economic nations such as Hungary. We chose leadership and job characteristics as managerial control mechanisms and locus of control as a personal mechanism of control. These categories of control variables have well-established associations to attitudes and behaviors in the Western management literature, but limited evidence has been generated in Hungary. A survey among 395 Hungarian workers in five companies found that leadership, job characteristics, and individual locus of control explained work-related alienation but did not explain organizational commitment. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. |
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