Organizational commitment and job strain at work a confused and ambivalent relation

Abstract

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the relationship between the forms of organizational commitment (Allen & Meyer1991) and job strain in RAMDY companies at Bejaia .To realize this study, the sample composed of (100): 10 frameworks, 40 supervisors and 50 agents of execution the mean of age is 35.  To collecting  data two scales of measure were used: the measure of the organizational commitment Allen and Meyer (1991)  which  approaches the organizational  commitment  under  a  three dimensional angle ( commitment emotional, normative  and  calculated) 18 items and the scale of job strain Karasek and Theorell (1990) which comprises 26  items: 9 items for the psychological request, 9 items for the decisional autonomy and for the social support. After having checked  assumptions,  the  results  revealed  that  there  is  a negative significant correlation between   the emotional and normative commitment and the level of job strain and a positive correlation between the continuity commitment and the level of job strain at the employees