Guilt fuels commitment to the job: expert

Feeling a sense of guilt or obligation towards an employer can increase an employee's commitment to an organisation, a University of Queensland Business School researcher has found in a study of Chinese workers. Professor of Management Neal Ashkanasy recently co-authored a study in the Asia Pacific Journal of Management about human emotion and the link to organisational commitment, conducted with 230 individuals across eight mainland Chinese firms. The study found employees were more likely to be committed to an organisation if they felt a sense of mutual obligation and also if they felt that they were actually getting things done. "We found people feel like they're committed to an organisation because the...