Relationship between religious beliefs, workplace happiness and organizational commitment

The Main Purpose of this research was to study the relationships between religious beliefs, workplace happiness and organizational commitment in Mobarake’s Muhammad Rasulollah hospital in Isfahan, Iran. In a sample of 161 employees from the mentioned hospital, which were selected via random sampling, a set of questionnaires consisting of religious beliefs (Serajzade, 1998), organizational commitment (Meyer & Allen, 1990) and happiness in workplace (Mehdad et al. 2012) were used. Data were analyzed with the use of Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. Correlations demonstrated that both components of religious beliefs were related significantly to happiness at workplace, affective commitment was related significantly to both components of religious beliefs and happiness at workplace, continuous commitment was related significantly to emotional religious and related negatively to happiness at workplace, and normative commitment was related negatively to both components of religious beliefs and happiness at workplace. Furthermore, results of simultaneous regression analysis revealed that the emotional religious beliefs would predict happiness in workplace and results of stepwise regression analysis revealed that happiness in workplace and religious beliefs would predict significantly affective, continuance and normative commitment. Therefore, based on current research’s results, organizational commitment and happiness in workplace could be enhanced by reinforcing the religious beliefs.