%0 Journal Article
%T The relationship between High Performance Work System, Organizational Commitment and demographic factors in public sector universities of Pakistan
%A Mohsin Bashir
%A Liao Jianqiao
%A Yong-Jun Zhang
%A Faheem Ghazanfar
%J Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business
%D 2011
%I Center for Research Promotion
%X The study comprehensively evaluates the relationship between HPWS and organization commitment and thelevel of organizational commitment among gender (male and female), nature of tenure (regular and contract employees) and job experience. Results based on academic faculty sample of 616 from 22 public sector universities of Pakistan show that HPWS is positively and significantly associated with organizational commitment. Kruskal- Wallis test reveals that there is no significant difference in organization commitment of male and female academic faculty. Academic faculty with regular tenure is more committed than academic faculty with contract tenure. High experience academic faculty is more committed than less experience academic faculty. The results also indicate that gender moderate the relationship between HPWS and organizational commitment. However moderate effect of tenure and experience are not confirmed.
%K HPWS
%K Organizational Commitment
%K Demographic factors
%K Academic Faculty
%K Universities of Pakistan
%U http://www.idjrb.com/articlepdf/idjrb8n7.pdf