Relationship between welfare staff and organizational commitment in the control center of the Central Registration Office


Ali Nazeri, Hadi Meftahi and Reza Kianipour


The aim of this research is to analyze the role of the staff’s wellbeing stated as independent variable and the work locus of control as the moderator factor associated with the organizational commitment and the staff’s wellbeing. To accomplish the objective, we used regression analysis. The research focuses on the one’s ability to predict the staff’s wellbeing and it studies the effects of the work locus of control as a moderator on the organizational commitment. Findings of the research show that the staff’s wellbeing maintains a negative relationship with the continuance commitment and a positive relation with the affective and normative commitments. Moreover, the impact of the work locus of control, as moderator, on the relationship between the staff’s wellbeing and their organizational commitment relational and has some necessities. Thus, the findings of the research are in a state of continual changes.


DOI: j.msl.2012.04.007

Keywords: Organizational commitment ,Work locus of control ,Staff’s wellbeing ,Normative commitment Continuance commitment

How to cite this paper:

Nazeri, A., Meftahi, H & Kianipour, R. (2012). Relationship between welfare staff and organizational commitment in the control center of the Central Registration Office.Management Science Letters, 2(5), 1779-1784.


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