J. Basic. Appl. Sci. Res., 1(4)269-274, 2011 © 2010, TextRoad Publication ISSN 2090-424X Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research www.textroad.com *Corresponding Author: Dr. Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, School of Management and Accounting, Department of Management, Zahedan, Iran. Yaghoobinor@yahoo.com Evaluating the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Organizational Commitment Badr-al-Din Oure'I Yazdani, Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi University of Sistan and Baluchestan, School of Management and Accounting, Department of Management, Zahedan, Iran. P.O.Box: 98135/987 ABSTRACT Organizations are the main infrastructures of current society and management is the most important factor in development or failure of the organizations. Culture is one of the most effective factors of management and ignoring it will lead to lack of internal solidarity and external adjustment. The researchers believe that any principle and effective change in organization must occur through culture and it is culture which causes the increase in individual’s commitment to the organization and continuous optimum behavior or vice versa. Current research has been done in cure managerial part of social support organization in Sistan & Baluchestan Province in order to evaluate the relationship between the organizational culture and organizational commitment of the staff. In this study, organizational culture has been defined in ten factors based on Robins’ theory and organizational commitment has been evaluated based on the theories of Porter, Green Bauk and Barron. The population is consisted of 500 people with the sample volume of 270 among which 230 questionnaires were replied and analyzed. According to the results, there is a significant positive relation between organizational culture and organizational commitment; and also there is a significant relation among organizational commitment and the factors of organizational culture including management support and organizational identity and there is no significant relation among organizational commitment and other factors of organizational culture including individual initiation, risk tolerance, the reward system based on organizational communication pattern performance, control system, managerial direction, conflict tolerance and integration. KEY WORDS: Organizational Culture, Commitment, Legend, Managerial Direction, Conflict Tolerance, Individual Initiation, Integration. INTRODUCTION According to continuous changing of societies, there must be changes in organizations proportionate to it. Change in the complicated phenomena of organizations of a society will be useful when it is based on a scientific knowledge not a test-error trial. Culture is one of the most effective factors of management and ignoring it will lead to lack of internal solidarity and external adjustment. Organizational commitment is also defined as the act of getting matched with an organization and connecting with it. There have been several studies on effects of cultural factors on organizational behavior among which the research by Hofsted in 41 IBM branches in different countries is counted as one of the earliest (Hofsted, 1980). This research which has become the base of several other researches shows that though the all branches of the considered company owned the same and certain structure, but there were significant diversities in organizational behaviors due to the effect of cultural factors. The concept of organizational culture also appealed to organizational scientists and practitioners who had grown disillusioned with the prevailing formalistic, quantitative organizational research. The emphasis on 269