ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT FROM A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE (THE CASE OF IRAN OIL INDUSTRY PENSION FUND).

The present research is aimed at analysis of the relationship between practices of human resource management and organizational commitment from a strategic point of view in retirement pension and funds organization of Oil industry. The study is an applied research and its data are collected through descriptive-survey methods and also in terms of data analysis, it is considered as a correlation study. The population of research includes the entire full-time employees of retirement pension and funds organization of Oil industry in Tehran and approximately 50 other cities in Iran. The research sample includes 248 employees of the aforementioned organization who were selected according to a simple random sampling method. Independent variables included eight practices of human resource management including selection, training, performance evaluation, promotion, performance based rewards, information sharing, job security and human resource management system. The dependent variable is also organizational commitment. In addition, the research data are collected through application of a researcher made questionnaire and a standard questionnaire. The aforementioned data have been subjected to analyses through application of the tests of structural equations and confirmatory factor analysis within the Software of SPSS and LISREL. Research results manifested that the entire variables have a significant positive effect on organizational commitment i.e. a significant statistical relation holds among them and organizational commitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]