Occupational stress and organizational commitment in Romanian public organizations

Studies indicate that high level of stress can lead to low organizational commitment, which can contribute to voluntarily employee turnover and may lead to low overall firm's performance. Occupational Stress Scale (House, McMichael, Wells, Kaplan & Landerman, 1979) and Affective, Normative and Continuance Commitment Scales (Meyer & Allen, 1997) were applied on a sample of 102 employees from five Romanian public organizations. Negative significant correlations have been identified between occupational stress and affective and continuance commitment, enhancing the need for designing tailored interventions in view of reducing stress and enhancing commitment in Romanian public organizations. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of PSIWORLD2011