The Relationship between Workplace Friendship and Organizational Commitment Paper Presented in Corporate Communication International's Conference on Corporate Communication (NYC-U.S) 2011
The main objective of this study is to determine the nature of relationship between workplace friendship and organizational commitment. Data collected via a questionnaire survey of 302 employees in two Iranian organizations. The relationship between two dimensions of workplace friendship, which is including of Friendship Prevalence and Friendship Opportunity, and three components of organizational commitment (Affective, Continuance, and Normative Commitment) were examined using the Spearman Rho correlation.The findings indicate that the level of Organizational Commitment and Workplace Friendship are rather high among the administrative staff of the two companies. The overall pattern in the relationship suggests that workplace friendship has a significant influence on organization commitment among the respondents.
We present a computer simulation study of thin crystalline multilayers constructed from two FCC solids with differing lattice constants and binding energies. Both materials are described by Lennard-Jones interatomic potentials and initially have the same orientation and coherent interfaces. We have studied systems in which interfaces are perpendicular to the common [100] and [111] directions, respectively. A novel technique for analyzing local atomic ordering, Common Neighbor Analysis, is used to identify structural characteristics in these systems. We have found several structural changes in the layers of smaller atoms, including an FCC to HCP transition. In a system with (111) texture, a coherent interface to incoherent interface transformation is observed. Calculations of elastic constants of these multilayer structures show that elastic anomalies are associated with the structural variations.