Modeling of work-commitment determinants: a cross-cultural comparison

Abstract

The object of the current analysis is the work commitment phenomenon and the possibilities of modeling it by analysing its components and the system of influencing factors searching for most significant determinants. The objective is to discuss the possible components of work-commitment phenomenon, propose the system of commitment-influencing factors and test their significance using an appropriate mathematical methodology. An addition task is to implement cross-cultural analysis, modeling general sample and separate samples for different cultures. In this paper the quantitative research methodology was chosen. However, the special attention should be driven to the choice of the adequate data modeling method, taking into account the limitations emanating from semi-qualitative data characteristics. In the current analysis Bayesian classification technique is used. Cross-cultural comparison was made for five countries from rather different cultural clusters: Great Britain, USA, Russian Federation, Japan and Germany. The cross-cultural comparison analysis yielded the relative non-homogeneity of the best predictors across the countries, with the best predictors being the factors of work climate, perception of the place of work in life, job security, interesting job, income, sex and pride related to the type of work.