دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی نگاهی نو به رابطه میان استرس شغلی و تعهد سازمانی: مطالعه طولی سه موجی - اشپرینگر 2018

Abstract

Based mainly on the results of cross-sectional studies, the dominant trend in the extant literature on job stress and organizational commitment posits a one-way directional relationship in which job stress negatively impacts organizational commitment. Moreover, research shows that job satisfaction fully mediates this relationship. The present study revisits the conceptual and methodological issues related to these relationships by employing a three-wave longitudinal design with 252 employees in two industrial organizations to test a model that involves a mutual relationship between job stress and organizational commitment in which job satisfaction partially mediates this reciprocal relationship. This proposed model was tested against and was preferable to numerous competing models. This study presents a new framework with more elaborate relationships between job stress, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. It contributes to the current body of knowledge by revealing a dynamic relationship between organizational commitment and job stress (i.e., a feedback loop) and the dual mediating roles of job satisfaction in this mutual relationship, thereby providing greater insight into the mechanism by which these variables are interrelated. On a practical level, based on the supported mutual relationships between job stress, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction, focusing on the factors that commonly have beneficial effects on these three constructs is expected to intensify employees’ well-being and provide more flexibility to intervening organizational actions aimed at managing these variables.

Conclusion

This research aimed to extend the literature on the OC-ST relationship. In contrast to the current assumptions and mono-perspectives suggesting that ST negatively impacts OC and, though with less focus, vice versa, this study has proposed a more comprehensive, dynamic research outline. The findings supported a model in which there is a crosslagged mutual relationship between these two constructs. Interestingly, JS plays dual partial mediating roles in this mutual relationship. These findings could be informative in terms of how we understand the actual relationship between these constructs. Specifically, this study emphasized the negative prediction of OC for ST and its conceptual implications. Importantly, this study drew attention to the feedback loops between OC and ST and the key roles JS plays in predicting both OC and ST. Therefore, these results should encourage researchers either to adopt modified versions of the current conceptual models dedicated to studying ST-OC/JS linkages or to consider new models that account for the dynamic nature of these relationships. Moreover, the present study offers implications for how practitioners can efficiently and effectively manage the interrelationships between OC, ST, and JS.