Explanation of the Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment in the Relationship between Organizational Loyalty and Social Undermining of School Managers

Abstract

The present research was carried out by the purpose of determining the relationship among organizational loyalty and social undermining by mediating of organizational commitment of school managers in Miandoab. It is applied research considering its purpose and regarding the method of data collection descriptive of correlational kind using modeling structural equations. The statistical population of the present study included all the managers of Miandoab schools in all grades of elementary, first period of high school, second period of high school, technical –professional instruction, vocational training in the educational year of 2021-2022 among them 262 people were selected by using relative class method. In order to collect the needed data, questionnaire of organizational loyalty of (Kumar & Shekhar, 2012) questionnaire of organizational commitment of (Belfor & Wechsler, 1996) questionnaire of social undermining of (Duffy et al, 2002) were used. In order to analyze data and examine causal relations among the variables, modeling structural equations were used. The results showed that organizational loyalty has significant negative relationship effect on social undermining (p<.01) and organizational commitment has significant negative relationship effect on social undermining (p<.01). Also, the mediating effect of organizational commitment in relationship between organizational loyalty and social undermining was confirmed (p<.01). Regarding the findings, it could be indicated that in order to control and decrease social undermining of school managers and avoid disruptive behaviors, considering the organizational commitment and organizational loyalty seems necessary.

Keywords

• organizational commitment
• social undermining
• school managers
• organizational loyalty