Keywords:
faculty engagement
fair compensation
job security
stress management
safe environment

  • Abstract

    This study examines the relationship between working conditions and organizational commitment among faculty members in Moroccan public universities, addressing a critical research gap in this regional context. Organizational commitment, defined as employees' emotional and psychological attachment to their institution, influences outcomes such as retention, performance, and institutional effectiveness. Despite existing research on factors like compensation, workload, job security, stress, and material conditions, studies focusing on Moroccan public universities remain limited. Using binary logistic regression, data from 200 university professors were analyzed to assess the impact of working conditions on commitment. Results show that fair compensation significantly increases commitment eightfold (OR = 8.25, p < 0.05), while job security enhances it sevenfold (OR = 7.24, p < 0.05). Safe environments (OR = 2.40, p < 0.05) and material conditions (OR = 4.49, p < 0.05) also positively influence commitment. Conversely, excessive workloads reduce commitment, though manageable levels of stress (OR = 3.77, p < 0.05) can serve as a motivator in high-performance academic settings.These findings highlight the need to improve compensation, workloads, job security, and material conditions to enhance faculty retention and institutional performance, while leveraging regulated stress as a potential motivator.

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Goumrhare, R., Elmouhib, S., Bouchra, B., Amina, B., & Abdelkarim, M. (2025). The impact of working conditions on the organizational commitment of teaching staff in Moroccan public universities. Multidisciplinary Reviews, 8(6), 2025184. https://doi.org/10.31893/multirev.2025184
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