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All institutions aim at understanding the issue of the organisational commitment. Hence, the goal of the current study is to propose a conceptual model for understanding the factors influencing organisational commitment that can be used to study and address the institutions-related challenges. The current paper is based on reviewing the organisational commitment literature that focuses on the behavioural aspects, particularly the perspectives of the social exchange and social influence. Consequently, three major factors were identified as having an effect on organisational commitment of the universities’ employees. These major factors include public spirit, ethics, and peer influence. Therefore, the current study contributes to the state of knowledge and literature related to the organisational commitment, particularly in the field of the behavioural aspects. This therefore provides a guide to administrations for maximization their efforts and encouraging the employees’ commitment. The lack of organisational commitment possibly has an effect on the organisations' performance and efficiency, thereby discouraging its development.
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To cite this article: Al Zeer, I., Alkhatib, A.A., Alshrouf, M. (2019). Determinants of Organisational Commitment of Universities’ Employees, International Journal of Academic Research in Accounting, Finance and Management Sciences 9 (1): 136-141.
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