The relationship between human resource management practices and organizational commitment: A field study

To begin with, of the most important factors that affect the operational performance of the companies is the human resources. Therefore, the development of organizational commitment needs effective human resource management practices. In organizational behavior and industrial and organizational psychology, organizational commitment is the psychological attachment to the organization. Organizational commitment predicts work variables such as turnover, organizational citizenship behavior, and job performance. The current study is intended to provide analysis of the relationships between HRM practices and organizational commitment in companies which operate in the province of Konya /Turkey. From various previous studies, 56 HRM practices items were adopted for this study. de, team activities, interaction facilitation, incentives to meet objectives, training on job skills, training in multiple functions, communication of strategy, ractices and variations in the HRM variables and organizational commitment. Correlations and multiple regression, statistic regression analysis were used to explore the relationship between the variables involved in the study. As a result of analysis of the findings from top, middle and, the firstwas found that there was a strong and statistically positive significant relationship between other HRM variables and organizational commitment. The findings of the study provide support for the variables concerned and are confirmed by the results of the previous studies.