Author's Name:	Morteza Soltani
Subject Area:	Social Science and Humanities
Subject	Management
Section	Research Paper

attitude, organizational commitment, HRM Practices

Studying organizational commitment and its antecedents has always been of interest for management researchers due to important outcomes such as promoting organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and reducing absenteeism and turnover. A review of organizational commitment studies within recent six decades indicates that impact of various variables on organizational commitment studied while the effects of human resource management (HRM) Practices on organizational commitment received less attention. Therefore, this research aims at investigating the impact of HRM Practices on organizational commitment aspects by taking an analytical approach. Findings indicate that organizations can influence their employees’ commitment through HRM Practices. More importantly, the amount of such impact is determined by employees’ perception of practices and such impact is not necessarily direct or non-situational; in other words, it may be indirect (through a mediating variable) or situational.