| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to (a) examine the relationship of leader-member
exchange (LMX), mentoring, and organizational justice on organizational
commitment; (b) investigate whether sex moderates the above relationships and
(c) test the interaction effects of LMX, mentoring, and organizational justice on
organizational commitment. Specifically, the present study examines the
relationship of four dimensions of LMX. namely- affect, contribution, professional
respect, and loyalty; two dimensions of mentoring, namely- psychosocial and
career: and three dimensions of organizational justice, namely - distributive,
procedural, and interactional on each type of organizational commitment. Nine
broadly hypothesized relationships were tested in a field study with a sample of
266 auditors serving in audit firms across Malaysia that are registered with the
Malaysian Institute of Accountant (MIA). A total of 1100 questionnaires were
posted out to MIA's firms located in the state of Penang. Selangor, and Wilayah
Persekutuan. From the total of 318 completed questionnaires that were returned
within a month (29% response rate), only 266 were usable (24.2% usable rate).
The study setting was the work environment in the respective audit firms and
participation was voluntary. The unit of analysis are the individual auditors who
responded to the questionnaire. By and large. the results from hierarchical
regression provided moderate support for the hypotheses.
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