All activities at different levels of the organization will not lead to high productivity unless commitment and inner sense of staff do not exist. Therefore, our community requires committing the employees to do things right through tools and resources of power that are handled by leaders and managers, and affect the behavior of employees. This study evaluates the relationship between five power resources of managers (expertise, coercive, legitimate, reward and referent) and employee commitment. According to nature of subject, the research is descriptive correlation. Statistical population contained employees of governmental organizations of Rafsanjan including 6875 people among which 350 individuals were selected through first formula of sampling. The questionnaires were distributed among employees and collected data were analyzed by SPSS. Frequency tables, column charts, Pearson and Spearman correlation tests and multiple linear regressions have been used for data analysis. Among five resources of power, expertise and referent power had positive relation with employee commitment and other resources had negative relation.
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