The Relationship between Self-control and Locus of Control and Organizational Commitment of the Staff Members at the Education Department of Sabzevar

This study is aimed at investigating the relationship between locus of control and self-control and organizational commitment of the staff serving with Education Department of Sabzevar. To this end, a group of 70 staff members were selected as the sample from among the 120 personnel by means of the simple random sampling method and involved in the study. The research data were gathered by means of Rotter’s Locus of Control Scale with a reliability coefficient of 0.83, Newstorm and Davis Self-control Questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.65, and Allen and Meyer Organizational Commitment Scale with a reliability coefficient of 0.79. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 18 application and Pearson correlation test, multivariate analysis (MANOVA) and some other supplementary tests. Results suggest that there is a positive relation between locus of control, self-control and organizational commitment. Furthermore, locus of control and self-control are independently related to organizational commitment.