Analyzing the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) activities and employees Intention to stay in the organization through organizational commitment

ABSTRACT:this study have been considered in order to analyzes the relationship between HRM activities and employee’s intention to stay in the organization ,and relationship between organizational commitment and employee’s intention to stay in the organization and relationship between HRM activities and organizational commitment through Employees ofmanufacturing companiesinthe industrial city ofRasht.For reaching to thepurposesof thisstudy,the independent variable which isthehuman resource managementactivitieshave been consideredinfour dimensions,training and development,career development,compensation service and benefits and analyzing the performanceand success.Also, according to the related literature, the role of organizational commitmentVariableonemployee’sintentionto stay inthe organizationshouldalsobe examined that this variable is evaluated inthree dimensions ofcontinuance, affective and normative commitment.The standard questionnaire of AllenandMeyer have been used for measuring the Variableorganizational commitment, and for measuring the human resource management activities a questionnairedesigned by the researcher have been used.This studypopulationconsisted of allemployees thatareworking inmanufacturing andindustrial companiesinthe city ofRasht and the number of them according to Rasht industrial city management is reported about 10000 people.The sample size in this study was 370 based on Cochran formula. In order tobe abletoanalyze the data as needed sample size, 400 copies of questionnaires were distributed among the employees and the amount of the returned questionnaires were 378 which were the bases of analysis .The reliability of these questionnaires using Cranach’s alpha coefficient was 0.89, that indicating good reliability of research tools. Variables Factor analysis indicated that the structures ofstudy are in good concurrent validity.Research data has shown that there is a significant relationship between HRM activities and employees tend to stay in the organization.Also there is a significant relationship Between HRM practices and emotional commitment and continuance commitment of staff, whereas there was no significant relationship between these variables with normative commitment.Also analyzing the indirect relationship between variables by using Structural equation modeling indicates that organization commitment plays the role of mediator variable in relation between human resourcemanagement and employees intention to stay in organization.