Evaluating the Effects of Job Resources and Employees’ Job Involvement on Organizational Commitment with the Mediating Role of Organizational Vitality

Abstract

Organizational commitment is defined as employees’ emotional and psychological attachment to identify with the organization and is a factor for achieving organizational goals due to the extreme commitment of employees to the participation, engagement and membership in the organization in this state. Other factors such as job resources and employees’ job involvement play a key role in this area as well. Meanwhile, organizational vitality mediates in the relationship between job resources and employees’ job involvement with organizational commitment. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the effect of job resources and employees’ job involvement on organizational commitment with the mediating role of organizational vitality in universities of Iran. A mixed method (qualitative and quantitative approach) was applied in the study; The results were indicative of the positive effects of job resources and employees’ job involvement on organizational commitment with the mediating role of organizational vitality.