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Studying the Relationship between Quality of work life and Organizational Commitment

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of human resources management, Astara Branch, Islamic Azad University, Astara, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 3, Issue (2), Pages 92-99, February,2 (2014)

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the qualities of work life with organizational commitment amongst the customs employees of Iran/Guilanprovince. The research statistical population covered all Guilan province custom office employees and as the Morgan table the sample population consisted of 196 persons. The results proved that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the quality of work life and its dimensions including safe and healthy environment, development of human capabilities, constitutionalism, social integration and the total life space with the organizational commitment. The results of model fit indices have an acceptable range, which allows the conclusion that the fit of the model is acceptable.

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