An investigation of the relationships between organizational stress organizational commitment and learned resourcefulness

Stress is an emotional tension that individuals may encounter in any moment of their lives. It is almost impossible not to be exposed to stress in either our private or professional lives. Researches are concentrated mainly on organizational stress, considering the fact that people spend most of their time in their workplace. Individuals undergo stress for reasons such as inequality in organizations, role ambiguity, time pressure, workload density etc. Stress encountered in organizations is of capital importance for managers, employees and organization's benefits. Because, organizational stress leads to low motivation, underperformance, lack of job satisfaction, conflicts, communicational deficiencies and fall in organizational commitment. Fall of organizational commitment due to the stress the individual is subject to, may lead to employees' absentee and resignation from the job. At this point, learned resourcefulness gets involved in coping with stress. Learned resourcefulness refers to all behavioral and cognitive control mechanisms that individuals enable when they are object to stress. It is necessary to develop learned resourcefulness skills to deal with stress that effects organizational commitment. Aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational stress, organizational commitment and learned resourcefulness. In this context, the relationship between organizational stress, organizational commitment and learned resourcefulness of research assistants and academics employed in Universities in Black Sea region has been examined; organizational stress has been shown to reduce organizational commitment. In addition, it has been determined that the learned strength has an effect on prevention of organizational stress and it has an effect on increasing the organizational dependence.