*Student, Azad University, Kerman
**Faculty, Azad University, Orumia
***Azad University, Orumia
Online published on 28 June, 2013.
One of the important issues of management specially organizational behavior is organizational commitment that directed concentration of so many scientists lately.Not only number of researches connected with commitment and its results have been increased but also it is been considered as a variable in most studies that their main topics were commitment.
In this research it's been tried to specify the connection between organizational commitment and desertion tendency. To study organizational commitment among all different models that have been suggested by scientists, Allen&Meyer's model was chosen which organizational commitment is suggested to study in three dimensions of Affective, Continuance and Normative. Research was conducted in headquarters of West Azerbaijan's prisons. The studied statistical population is divided to two different groups of managers and experts. There were 22 managers in this office that have been checked by enumeration. Among 143 people that were working in statistical population, 104 of them (the derived number of Kukran's formula) have been studied. The used statistical test analysis (Spearman's solidarity) confirms positive effect of all dimensions on desertion tendency in both statistical populations. The derived solidarity coefficient denoted the priority of these dimensions in a way that in both societies the normative dimension is in the first rank of effectiveness. Affective commitment ranked second and continuance dimension has less effectiveness in comparison with the other two dimensions.
organizational commitment, Desertion tendency