Abstract
Personnel is vital for the companies and the performance in organizations is based on competence of personnel. Motivation and commitment are critical preconditions for organizational success. The study focuses on evaluating commitment and motivation levels of experts. The aim was to discover the main exceptions between the current status and the vision regarding commitment and motivation. The fluctuations of commitment and motivation levels were analyzed in terms of departments, gender, age and years of service. The survey was conducted by using Helix, an Evolute-based application, which was developed for measuring and evaluating the personnel commitment levels. This survey strongly emphasized the significance of affective commitment. In observing either the creative tensions or the product of creative tension and importance, all surfacing main categories fall under the affective commitment component.
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Koskialho, J., Einolander, J., Vanharanta, H. (2017). Commitment and Motivation in Professional Organization. In: Kantola, J., Barath, T., Nazir, S., Andre, T. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 498. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42070-7_5
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