The Relationship among Management Methods, Perceived Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment, and job satisfaction of managers: A case study

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Khadijeh Nadri ¹ , Zahra Arab ² , hanieh Badiee ³ , Jamal Ashoori ⁴

1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحدرودهن، باشگاه پژوهشگران جوان و نخبگان، رودهن، ایران
2 - کارشناس مشاوره، دانشگاه فرهنگیان، پردیس آیت اله طالقانی، قم، ایران
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد رودهن، باشگاه پژوهشگران جوان و نخبگان، رودهن، ایران
4 - دکتری روان شناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، گروه روانشناسی، اصفهان، ایران

Received: 2014-05-24 Accepted : 2015-02-20 Published : 2015-06-21

Keywords: perceived organizational support, Organizational Commitment, managers, Job Satisfaction, management methods,

Abstract :

This research aimed to investigate the relationship among management methods, perceived organizational support, organizational commitment. and job satisfaction of managers. The statistical population includes all managers in high schools of Gharchak city. For this research 130 managers were selected through random sampling. All of them completed the multiple management methods questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 1995), perceived organizational support questionnaire (Eisenberger et al, 1986), organizational commitment questionnaire (Allen & Meyer, 1997) and Herzberg’s job satisfaction questionnaires (Dant et al, 1966). The findings showed a positive and significant relationship among transformational management method, transactional management method, perceived organizational support, affective commitment, job satisfaction (p<0/01). Perceived organizational support, transactional management method and effective commitment in one predicted model predicted about 55 percent of variance of job satisfaction moreover, share of perceived organizational support in prediction job satisfaction was higher than other variables. The findings showed that perceived organizational support, transactional management method and effective commitment were the major predictors of job satisfaction. Therefore, higher managers, programmers, therapists and counselor are suggested to symptoms of mention variables and then to design programs for to consider the promote job satisfaction among managers