Studying the Relationship between Organizational Health and Organizational Commitment : Case Study : Mehr Housing Cooperative Companies in Shoushtar City

Abstract

This study has done to surveying relationship between organizational health with seven dimensions (institutional integrity, principal influence, consideration, initiating structure, resource support, morale and academic emphasis) and organizational commitment with three dimensions affective, continuous, and normative commitment). We determined the amount of the sample size with the used of Cochran sampling method which the statistical sample is 130 of Mehr housing cooperative company managers which have been selected through the simple random sampling method. To gathering of data, we used a questionnaire in organizational health according to Hoy & Feldman (1987) and organizational commitment according to Allen & Meyer (1990). Questionnaire reliability was estimated by calculating Cronbach’s Alpha that was 0.92. In order to analyze the data resulted from collected questionnaires deductive and descriptive statistical methods are used. The results Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test shows the test distribution is not Normal. So we can use Spearman Correlation coefficients to test the hypothesis of the research. Findings confirm our hypothesis (H1) and we find a strong positive and meaningful relation between organizational health and organizational commitment at Mehr housing cooperative companies’ managers in Shushtar City.