Presentation of a Model for Interpretation of Manager’s Five Power Sources and their Impact on Personnel’s Organizational Commitment

Today with respect to the certain conditions and situation to which the managers are exposed in several organizations and enterprises, they should employ best type of their power in order to create loyalty to the organization and enterprises or organizational commitment in personnel. The current research, which is of descriptive type and correlation survey kind, has been conducted by aiming at study on the impact of managers’ five power sources on organizational commitment. For this purpose, the questionnaire was used to measure these variables and after being assured from validity and reliability of measurement tool by means of gap analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, the questionnaire forms were distributed among a sample group including 166 participants from official personnel in Sistan and Baluchestan University. The findings of the studied model indicated that according to the given route analysis model, power sources might affect on personnel’s organizational commitment. Similarly, among five power sources of managers, referent power and expertise power may interpret organizational commitment more than other sources. To conduct all these tests (correlation, measurement and structural models), SPSS and LISREL software were utilized. Finally, some suggestions will be purposed to managers for improvement and rising organizational commitment among personnel by means of power sources.

Power Sources, Commitment, Personnel, Structural Model, University