Analysis of the Relationship Between Motivation for xe2x80x9cWork for Noncore Businessxe2x80x9d and Organizational Commitment of Young Employees Against the background of a mobile labor market and the emergence of new perspectives on careers, employees now engage in work for noncore businesses, which is NOT related their core business in the organization in order to develop their career proactively. Young employees are especially motivated to engage in such work for their future careers. However, the structure of their motivation and its relationship to organizational commitment is still unclear. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey and statistical analysis to determine the latent factors behind their motivation and to clarify the relationship between these factors and organizational commitment. The results point to three factors: social contribution, own work creation, and subemployer exploration. However, only social contribution has a positive correlation with organizational commitment. According to this finding, the organization should focus on the social contribution aspect of employeesu0027 motivation and need not to consider other factors to enhance organizational commitment.

How online gamersxe2x80x99 participation fosters their team commitment: Perspective of social identity theory Abstract   Online games are highly popular applications. While online gamers actively participate in gaming teams, no study has yet explored whether gamers have sufficient teamwork knowledge and have accumulated sufficient team participation experience. These likely strengthen team commitment, but we do not know, indicating a research gap. Research filling this gap could shed light on useful means for enhancing gamersxe2x80x99 team commitment. Grounded in social identity theory, we theorize the mechanism that links gamersxe2x80x99 overall gaming team participation experience and overall gaming teamwork knowledge to their team commitment. We collect twowave data from 344 online gamers that have played massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) and use structural equation modelling for data analysis. We find that overall team participation experience is positively related to gaming team identification, while overall teamwork knowledge is positively related to compliance with gaming team norms. Both team identification and norm compliance are positively related to gaming team commitment. This study is the first to clarify the mechanism underlying the impacts of overall gaming team participation experience and overall gaming teamwork knowledge on gamersxe2x80x99 team commitment. Our findings provide the practical insight that game designers should incorporate game features that require or reward gamersxe2x80x99 participation in gaming teams or enhance gaming teamwork knowledge, thus strengthening gamersxe2x80x99 team commitment.