"The Relationship between Employees' Commitment and Improvement of the Organization Performance in the National Iranian Drilling Company"

Abstract

Nowadays, organization and management thinkers indicate that the most important and valuable asset of an organization is its human resources and paying attention to this precious asset have direct effect on the failure or success of the organization. The concept of organizational commitment implies a positive attitude resulting from the employees’ sense of loyalty to the organization and manifested in the individuals’ participation in organizational decision-making, paying attention to people in the organization and their success and well-being. Some of the most significant results of employee’s’ commitment to the organization that affect the performance of the organization include : increase of creativity and innovation of the employees, reduction of employees turnover, employees’ sense of satisfaction, belonging, dependency and attachment to the organization, more appropriate job performance by the employees, altruistic behavior, lack of absenteeism from work, helping colleagues and reducing work stress and also organizational successes and finally the increase of effectiveness and productivity of the organization. All these results finally lead to the organization’s elevation and achieving the organizational goals and in the end benefit the society too from the profits of the organization and endeavors of the employees. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship between employee’s organizational commitment and improvement of performance of the organization. The method of the present study was descriptive-correlational and the hypotheses were tested using Pearson correlation coefficients and SPSS software, version 16. The results indicated that there is a direct relationship between the sense of commitment in the employees and improvement of the organization performance, and multiple regression analysis showed that the dimension of appropriate delegation of authority among the employees is more effective on improving the performance of the organization in comparison with other aspects of work commitment .

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