The Role of Organizational Commitment, Islamic Work Ethics and Job Alienation in Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Organization with the Probability of Employee Breach

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of organizational commitment, Islamic work ethic, work alienation in relation to job satisfaction and the organization with the possibility of breaking the law of employees. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey method. The study population was all employees of government offices in Najafabad city. Morgan table was used to determine the sample size and 331 people were determined. Of these, 306 members of the statistical community answered the questionnaire. To measure the research variables, the standard job satisfaction questionnaires of Minnesota Weiss et al. (1967), Sims satisfaction (2002), Banai and Russell job alienation (2007), Allen and Meyer organizational commitment (1993), Islamic work ethic and lamentation, respectively. Et al. (2015) and Five Ethical Troubles / Problems were used in the form of six Sims (1999) scenarios to investigate the possibility of breaking the law. The general research model approach has been structural equation modeling with partial least squares (PLS) approach and WarpPLS software. Findings show that job satisfaction and satisfaction with the organization have an inverse effect on work alienation. Job satisfaction and organizational satisfaction have a direct effect on organizational commitment. Organizational commitment has the opposite effect on work alienation; But organizational commitment does not affect the likelihood of breaking the law despite being reversed. Job alienation predicts and has a direct effect on employee law-breaking. Islamic work ethic as a moderator variable has been able to reduce the effect of organizational commitment on work alienation at the level of 99% (β = 0.25 and P <0.10) and also the effect of work alienation on the probability of breaking the law at the level of 95% (0.17 - = β and P = 0.04).