Abstract:

Today, as a result of rapid changes in businesses and technology, uncertainty emerges for managers and employees in organizations. Organizational uncertainties in business life also cause organizational stress. Stress experienced in organizations affects organizational commitment of employees. The aim of the research is assign the mediator role of organizational stress in the effect of organizational uncertainty on organizational commitment. The sample of this study is 212 bank employees working in central districts of Konya and selected by easy sampling method. Organizational stress, organizational commitment and organizational uncertainty perception scale were accessed in questionnaire form created to collect data. After entrying the data to SPSS package program, was used factor analysis, correlation analysis and structural equation modeling were accessed in test of the model created to assign the predictive relationships between the variables. Consequently, organizational uncertainty predicted organizational commitment negatively; positive direction between organizational stress and organizational organizational uncertainty; A negative relationship was set up between organizational uncertainty and organizational commitment. Also it is seen that organizational stress is a mediator effect in relationship among organizational uncertainty and organizational commitment.

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