The Effect Of Core Self-evaluations On Organizational Commitment:A Moderated Mediation Model

Staff stability was the precondition for the steady development of enterprises.And staff performance as well as withdrawal behaviors of employees could have an important impact on the production efficiency.In many enterprises in China,there existed many problems such as lack of corporate culture,high role stress,and lack of internal communication,leading to the low organizational commitment and serious brain drain.Experts in human resources and organizational behavior had made a lot of research about antecedent variables of organizational commitment.Most of the researches focused on the perspectives of work,organization and individual.Among individual factors,previous studies had explored the impact of demographics while neglected the mechanism of personality traits on organizational commitment.Based on the questionnaire analysis of 550 employees in iron and steel enterprise,this paper constructed a theoretical model of “core self-evaluations → job satisfaction →organizational commitment” from the perspective of psychology and organizational behavior,and explored the influence mechanism of core self-evaluations on organizational commitment,and tested the mediating effect of job satisfaction as well as moderating effect of perceived organization supportThrough empirical research,we obtained the following four conclusions:(1)Core self-evaluations had significant positive effect on organizational commitment.(2)Job satisfaction could fully mediate the effects of core self-evaluations on organizational commitment.(3)Perceived organizational support could positively moderate the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment.The higher the perceived organization support,the stronger positive effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment.(4)Further research showed that perceived organization support positively moderated the mediating effect of the job satisfaction on the relationship between core self-evaluations and organizational commitment.