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    Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments, portrays a young Irish bands’ dreams of becoming a Dublin soul group that impacts others. In the beginning, The Commitments, as they call themselves, are motivated by the desire to represent a genre of music their people can relate to; but as time passes by, certain band members’ hunger for fame and fortune outweighs their desire for a creative outlet. Joey, Jimmy, and Deco’s desire for fame and fortune dictates The Commitments and eventually causes them to

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    2.3.2 Continuance Commitment The second dimension of the tri-dimensional model of organisational commitment is continuance commitment. Continuance commitment, in simple words, is the degree by which an employee believes that leaving the organization would be costly, this kind of commitment is about costs and benefits which are related to continuing in or quitting the organisation. If an employee has continuance commitment, he or she will stay with an organization because he or she feels that they

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    1.4.3 Antecedents Of Commitment Antecedents of commitment are elements and actions that cause commitment to occur. These elements foster employee perception that leads to positive consequences for the organization and the individual (Fornes et al., 2008). Tayyab (2006) categorized antecedents into intrinsic and extrinsic work motivation. Intrinsic values are derived from individual’s personal feelings and objectives, it comprises of feelings of enjoyment and satisfaction which are derived from work

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    Organizational commitment is a psychological attachment of an individual toward an organization. It is an emotional response that can be measured through people’s behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes. Committed employee as being one “stays with an organization, attends work regularly, puts in a full day and more, protects corporate assets, and believes in the organizational goals (Meyer & Becker, 2004). A committed employee contributes and devote oneself to the organization. Organizational commitment is the

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    a. Affective commitment (meyer and allen 1997) Affective commitment measures the level of attachment and affection that an individual has with the company. Employees sometimes get emotionally attached to their company and this can be due to several reasons for example, good internal relations, good atmosphere, friendly environment and peer motivation (Van Knippenberg & Sleebos, 2006). When an employee gets attention and prominent identity in a company, he/she gets associated to it by heart and then

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    Civil Commitment Report

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    Civil commitment procedures and policies vary across the nation, Virginia holding one of the shortest procedures in emergency response to mental health crisis. Virginia’s mental health reform needs comes to the forefront of the political agenda after tragedy ensues itself. Although, prior reports and evaluations identify service gap issues and problems with the emergency services system. The preferred political system is the problem stream that opens a policy window to allow support much needed

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    Theoretical Framework 2.1 Organizational Commitment Organizational commitment is one of the most investigated areas of study. Colakoglu, Culha and Atay (2010) state that increasing interests of various disciplines, such as sociology, psychology and behavioural sciences on organizational commitment, and examining organizational commitment by researchers in the field, both cause one’s own perspective to take different definitions into account. However, the view of commitment is that it can influence individual

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    Lost in The Madhouse: The use and abuse of involuntary commitment Throughout the ages, the idea of involuntary hospitalization has always had its supporters and its detractors. Many people have long debated the ethics of forcing treatment on patients that cannot always make the best decisions for themselves. Involuntary commitment is now a very hot topic, especially in a state like Florida, where their Baker Act and Marchman Act laws are greatly debated on their usefulness versus their harmfulness

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    Involuntary Outpatient Commitment In 1955, over 559,000 individuals resided in inpatient psychiatric hospitals. By 1995, however, the number had drastically diminished to 69,000, (National Health Policy Forum, 2000). This drastic reduction was largely due to the discovery of antipsychotic medications in the 1950s, and the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, wherein several thousands of mentally ill individuals were released from psychiatric institutions to return to their communities

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    4. Literature Review:- Employee commitment is relative to the worker which tell us the level of involvement and loyalty to the Organization in which they are working. A considerable test is done to find out the linkage between job satisfaction with organizational commitment, job attitude and performance which is also depend upon the other work related problems. Researcher also found a complex relation between job satisfaction and performance. It is not clear in the past literature that whether job

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