The relationship between different aspects of organizational trust and employees′ organizational commitment (case study:Employees of Mahabad Educational Office)

This research is aboutthe relationship between different aspects of organizational trust and organizational commitment of the staff. The statistical population of this study consists of 1500 employees of Educational Office in Mahabad city; and the sample's capacity is 306 people that was calculated by using Cochran method. In order to investigate the organizational trust we used the method proposed by Alonen et.al, and we used Allan and Meyer's method to investigate the organizational commitment. We used Friedman's test and Pearson's coefficient test to analyze the data and to examine the hypothesis. The present research is consisted of a main hypothesis and three supporting hypotheses. The results of the main hypothesis show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between organizational trust and organizational commitment. And the results of supporting hypotheses show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between organizational trust (vertical trust, lateral trust and institutional trust) and organizational commitment. The results also show that there is a meaningful and positive relationship between all aspects of organizational trust with each other and also with all aspects of organizational commitment.