The variables:
1. Managerial type of control
-Activity control
-Outcome control
-Capability control
2. Relationship Quality
-In-group
-Out-group
3. Affective Commitment
Project goal
Specific research objectives were to:
1. Examine the impact of owner-manager control on the employees’ affective commitment
2. Investigate the relationship quality the owner-manager and the employees.
3.Examine the conditions under which type of owner-manager control is related to an increase/ decrease of employee's affective commitment.
By concentrating on the relationship with owner-manager of the business, this study will try to predict employees’ affective commitment. Employees that perceive a supportive organization and high quality of relationship with the owner-manager may feel an obligation to pay something back.
I definitely recommend you to use the ELECTRE and Shannon's Entropy in quantitative methods. Ofcourse you can also use the Delphi as a qualitative method.
Certainly the MODM and MADM as decision making methods can be useful for you. Hope you try on it.
I believe you may use the hierarchical linear regression in SPSS or any other statistical application. Also you can use Structural Equation Modeling for studing the relationships among three variables or more.
Structural Equation Modeling for studying the relationships among three or more variable will be very good in qualitative research.
Linear Regression through which you can check how these variable are interrelated with each other. Within linear regression, step-by -step method is mostly suitable for explaining the relationship among variables.
first hypothesis can be evaluated through regression or SEM.
second objective is not clearly written. If you want to check the level of RQ between managers and employees, you can use t test
for hypothesis 3 you have to identify the conditions and check their impact through moderation
After reading all the answer provided in this forum, I am thinking to utilize the hierarchical linear modeling/ Regression (HLM). Because I have refined my research question as follow : "What type of control (activity – capability – outcome) INFLUENCE employee’s level of affective commitment?
Does this technique suitable for my project?
Thank you!
One way is to consider activity control, outcome control, and capability control as the independent variables, and the affective commitment as the dependent variable. Then, possible alternative hypotheses are:
1. Activity control has a significant and positive influence on affective commitment.
2. Outcome control has a significant and positive influence on affective commitment.
3. Capability control has a significant and positive influence on affective commitment.
4. Activity control, outcome control, and capability control will explain a significant percentage in the variability of affective commitment.
By using regression technique it is possible to test the validity of the above hypotheses. Bivariate regression is to be used for 1, 2, and 3 hypotheses. Multivariate regression is for hypothesis 4. The strengths of influence that each of the independent variables has on the dependent variable, i.e., affective commitment, can be determined by the use of multiple regression coefficients of the independent variables. The variable that has the highest Beta value will be the independent variable that has the highest influence on affective commitment.
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