Chen Yewei
Business School, Zhejiang University City College Hangzhou, China
Li Jiming
Business School, Zhejiang University City College Hangzhou, China
ABSTRACT
The study reports the professional commitment and academic engagement situation of business school students in order to find the causal relationship. With classroom observation, individual interviewing and questionnaires investigation, it shows the business school students in different majors have different levels in professional commitment but not in academic engagement. It studies the characteristics of professional commitment for business school students and finds that continuance commitment is at the first place; normative commitment and affective commitment are at the next; ideal commitment is at the last. With regressive analysis, it illustrates the effect of professional commitment on academic engagement from the affective, normative and continuance dimensions. Ideal commitment is related but not a predictor to academic engagement. It is professional commitment not professional major induced the differentiated situation of academic engagement. Four strategies are discussed to improve the academic engagement for business school students.
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Chen Yewei and Li Jiming, 2013. Differentiated Professional Commitment Effect on Academic Engagement For Business School Students. Information Technology Journal, 12: 4168-4171.
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.4168.4171
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.4168.4171
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2013.4168.4171
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=itj.2013.4168.4171
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