Background and aims
work centrality refers to the extent to which individuals view work as
a main component of their life. If organization don`t prepare employees for retirement, when high
work centrality individuals approach to retirement, reduce their organizational commitment to
maintain their mental health (the purpose of study 1). If organization prepare employees for
retirement (high organization influence), people with high mental health can be committed to
organization highly (the purpose of study 2).
Method
The first study was conducted with 572 employees of an industrial company. At
second study compared two groups. The first group was 572 employees, the sample of first study
, and the second group was contained 97 employees that both of them responded to instruments
with differentiation that the first group was for preparing to retirement in this distance. Instruments
were Organizational Commitment Scale, Work Centrality Scale & SCL-90-R Questionnaire.
Finding
At firs study indicated that relationship between organizational commitment and
work centrality was influenced with mediators variables, mental health and retirement adjustment
that mean the absolute value of this relation in high mental health individuals and high retirement
adjustment individuals is more , although its direct is negative. According to the finding of first
study, at second study first conducted an intervention for preparing to retirement and consequently
their commitment after this intervention was accompanied by high mental health.
Conclusion
Organizations are responsible for their employee` health and with conducting
interventions in this way, they can guarantee employees` organizational commitment with their mental health.
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