Relating Organizational Commitment to Eudaimonic Wellbeing

The paper examines relationships between organizational commitment - including affective, continuance and normative commitment and eudaimonic wellbeing. We employed a cross-sectional design and the data were obtained from different government organizations like hospitals , colleges and public administration offices ( N = 163). Multiple regression analysis revealed that organizational commitment significantly predicted eudaimonic wellbeing. Further, Affective commitment was found to be the strongest predictor. Normative and Continuance commitment did not predict eudaimonic wellbeing but we found negative relations between normative commitment and few indices of wellbeing. The research demonstrates that being affectively committed to your organization can result in greater levels of wellbeing. This presents a win-win situation for both the employer and the employee. Keywords : organizational commitment , eudaimonic wellbeing , positive psychology