Abstract:
The concept of organizational commitment has become a hot topic in the literature of industrial psychology and organizational behavior in the past decade. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of employee characteristic (age, marital status, job tenure, educational level and job level), Perceived organizational support, psychological capital and job satisfaction to organizational commitment of personnel working in oil industry. The four general hypotheses were developed and data was collected from 234 personnel who were randomly chosen from various departments of Imam Khomeini Shazand Oil Refining Company. The instrumentation of the study was common demographic questions and other variables measured by a paper-and-pencil questionnaire based on 5-point Likert item from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". Collected data were analyzed via regression by SPSS software. Findings indicated perceived organizational support, psychological capital and job satisfaction significantly predicted affective organizational commitment, but employee's background was not a satisfactory predictor of affective commitment for personnel working in oil industry. Findings suggest organizational managements and psychologists need to consider the importance of psychological factors when designing programs for increasing the organizational commitment of the workers.
Machine summary:
The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships of employee characteristic (age, marital status, job tenure, educational level and job level), Perceived organizationalsupport, psychological capital and job satisfaction to organizational commitment of personnel working in oilindustry.
Findings indicated perceived organizational support, psychological capital and job satisfaction significantly predicted affective organizational commitment, but employee's background was not a satisfactory predictor of affective commitment for personnel working in oilindustry.
Keywords: Affective organizational commitment, Job satisfaction, POS (Perceived Organizational Support), PsyCap (Psychological Capital), Demograpshic factors INTRODUCTION The organizations should use effectively human resource to be adapted to the changing world and achieve its goals in comparative environment.
Therefore, the main research questions of this survey can be briefly summarized as follows: Do Employee characteristics (Age, marital status, education level, job tenure and organizational position) significantly predict affective organizational commitment among personnel working in Imam Khomeini Shazand Oil Refining Company?
Literature Review Within this literature review, the psychological variables (POS, PsyCap and job satisfaction) and organizational commitment will be introduced then the relationship between each factor with affective commitment will be reviewed, also in this section the influence of some demographic characteristics will be determined based on the previous researches.
Independent Variable Dependent Variable Employee Characteristic Psychological Factors Perceived Organizational Support H1 H2 Affective Commitment H3 H4 Psychological Capital Job Satisfaction Figure 1: Hypothesized theoretical framework Description of Instruments In this study the information was collected through self-administered questionnaires distributed personally to the subjects by the researcher.