Investigating the Mediating Role of Work Domain Goal Orientation in Relationship between School Organizational Health and Job Commitment in a Sample of Teachers

The purpose of present study was to investigate the mediating role of work domain goal orientation in relationship between school organizational health and job commitment in a sample of teachers. This study was a correlational research. The research population was all of teachers of Ashkezar city in 1393-94 school years. Between them, 302 teachers were selected by random cluster sampling and answer to work domain goal orientation questionnaire, school organizational health questionnaire and teacher commitment scale. Cronbach's alpha of organizational health and teacher commitment scales were .94 and .84 respectively. Cronbach's alpha of goal orientation questionnaire for Learning goal orientation, prove performance and avoid performance goal orientation subscales were .92, .88 and .85 respectively. Finally, gathered data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling. The results show that correlation between all variables, except correlation between learning and avoid goal orientation, were positive and significant. Also, work domain goal orientation has a mediating role in relationship between school organizational health and job commitment and proposed model of the present study have a good fitness. In the other word, can conclude that school organizational health provides a situation that teachers with any work goal orientation can have high job commitment.