The relationship between participative climate and it’s dimensions on employees' organizational commitment

In today's era, one of the most important basic challenges of the human resources managers is to maintain capable employees in order to create success of the organization, and to use them optimally. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between the participative climate and the organizational commitment of employees in a military unit.

The statistical population was the employees of the headquarters area of a military unit, from this, 184 employees were selected as a statistical sample through simple random sampling method. Instruments included Cooperative Climate Questionnaire, and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling method and SPSS and AMOS softwares.

The results showed that the participative climate and its dimensions (participation culture in the organization, support of work groups, employees' attitude and continuous monitoring) have  positive and significant effects on organizational commitment.

The results of the research showed that as long as a military unit has a culture of participation, help,  and cooperation, it can be expected that employees’ organizational commitment will increase as well. To the extent that team building and support of work groups are done well in this military unit, this climate of cooperation of work groups will make organizational commitment effective in this department.