Summary: | The purpose of this study is to investigate the significant impact on the relationship between
psychological empowerment, work stress and organizational commitment among academic staff
in public universities. A total number of 297 academic staff in northern region public universities in Malaysia was responded to this study. Data was analyzed using SPSS 21 to test the hypotheses of the study.The results indicated that psychological empowerment and work stress have
significant impact on organizational commitment. Future research can be done by identifying
other factors such as work-life balance, job overload, job security, pay and benefits, communication and work conflict that effect employee’s commitment towards organization. It is
also recommended that this study could be further extended to compare between public and private
universities as well.
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