The Study on the Influence of Power in Use upon Organizational Commitment

• Main Authors: Hai-Huei Lee, 李海輝
• Other Authors: Su-Chao Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1999
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17486968466103395441

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 企業管理學系 === 87 === The phenomenon of power in organizations has been recently emphasized by organization researchers, especially the influence of power on strategy making. This study attempts to investigate the relationship between power in use and organizational commitment on the viewpoint of organizational behaviors, and by comparing the organizations of different performance we try to make our research better. Samples are consisted of 12 corporations taking from manufacturing、service-setting and financing industry in Taiwan. Our research choose a firm’s profit rate as its performance index. By questionnaires gathering and statistical analysis we get following results: 1.The power structure has relationship with power in use, but the canonical correlation analyses of high-performance samples are different to low-performance ones. 2.The power in use has relationship with organizational commitment, and the canonicalcorrelation analyses of high-performance samples are similar to low-performance ones. Research reveals that the politics of executive succession、budgets and careers cause negative influence on organizational commitment, but the politics of organizational structure has positive influence upon organizational commitment.