Meta-analysis of Studies of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Iranian Organizations

The increasing growth of researches in the field of humanities and social sciences makes necessary the researcher-done meta-analysis of a problem for acquiring a relatively comprehensive understanding of these problems. This study combines a number of studies in the field of relationships between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in Iran's organizations. For this purpose, 24 articles related to this subject were investigated through meta-analysis. This analysis was conducted through the software of comprehensive meta-analysis (CMA2). The results showed that job satisfaction and organizational commitment relationship is above average (mean effect size 0/49). in addition, among the dimensions of job satisfaction, satisfaction with the nature of the work, approval of management and satisfaction of coworkers with effect size, respectively, 0/41, 0/33 and 0/32 have the largest share of the impact on organizational commitment. While aspects of wages and promotion satisfaction and promotion satisfaction with respectively 0/31 and 0/29 effect size had the lowest share in this area.