March 2019

The affective commitment of academics in a university in Botswana

Affective commitment remains an essential factor in key outcomes such as work performance and productivity, and has been shown to have the strongest positive relation with positive work behaviours when compared with normative commitment and continuance commitment. Using a sample of 164 academic employees at the University of Botswana, this study assessed the extent to which they had affective commitment to the...

Author(s): Esther Nkhukhu-Orlando, Byron Brown, Debra Rose Wilson, Ntonghanwah Forcheh, James G. Linn and Thabo T. Fako