Abstract:

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. However, although reasonable stress creates positive effects, organizational stress often leads to negativity in organizational issues such as motivation, performance, job satisfaction, communication and organizational commitment. In this context, the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational stress, organizational commitment and learned resourcefulness. Within the scope of this aim, a questionnaire was applied to 291 research assistants and lecturers working at public universities. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 23.0 program. The obtained data were analyzed by factor, correlation and regression analysis. Results of analysis, organizational stress has been shown to reduce organizational commitment. In addition, it has been determined that the learned resourcefulness has an effect on prevention of organizational stress. Finally, it has also been found that learned resourcefulness has an effect that increases organizational commitment. The study aims to contribute to the literature in terms of combining the concepts of organizational commitment, organizational stress and learned resourcefulness.

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