Investigating the relationship between self-esteem and organizational commitment with regard to the mediating variable of empathetic sense among staff members in the General Department of Technical and Vocational Education in Isfahan Province

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• maryam ahmadi zahrani ¹
• mohammadreza barat ²

¹ yazd university

² Master of Science Graduated Student, Department of Management, Islamic Azad University Esfahan (Khorasgan) Branch

10.30495/jedu.2021.20792.4255

Abstract

Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between self-esteem and organizational commitment according to the organizational empowerment moderator variable in the General Department of Technical and Vocational Education in Isfahan province. The present method is a descriptive (analytic study type) with inductive logic. The statistical population of this study was all professional and technical staff of Isfahan province. In the second half of 1396, 652 people were reported. The sample size was selected on the basis of Morgan's table of 242 people and were selected by available sampling method. The instruments for collecting data were Alan and Meyer (1990) with 24 items, Ison Ezzenck (1976) with 30 items, Empathy, Baron-Cohen (2003) with 24 items, respectively. After verifying the formal and content validity of the questionnaires, the organizational commitment, self-esteem and empathy were more than 0.7, which, according to the number of questions, indicated that the instrument was accurately measured in the research. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS24 software. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between organizational commitment, empathy and self-esteem variables (p <0.05) and empathy variable can play a moderating role between self-esteem and organizational commitment (p <0/01) . The results showed that there is a significant difference in age groups responding to research questionnaires in organizational commitment (P <0.05). But in the two variables of empathy and self-esteem, there is no significant difference in the response of any of the age groups of employees of Isfahan Technical and Vocational Organization. There is a significant difference between the opinions of male and female respondents in the level of organizational commitment . But there is no significant difference in the variables of self-esteem and empathy (P <0.05). There is a significant difference in the scores of empathy of different educational groups in the staff of Isfahan Technical and Vocational Organization (P <0.05). There is no significant difference in the response of any of the respondent groups with different work histories in the variables of organizational commitment, self-esteem and empathy in the staff of Isfahan 

Keywords

• organizational commitment
• self-esteem
• empathetic sense
• technical and vocational organization

20.1001.1.20086369.1400.12.3.11.1

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