Work stress and organizational commitment: a bibliometric analysis and research Agenda.

Overview & Synopsis

The purpose of this in-depth study is to investigate and visualize trends in research on work stress and organizational commitment and to identify future challenges in this area. A search for articles dealing with work stress and organizational commitment was conducted in the Web of Science (WoS) database, the publisher-independent global citation database. A total of 1514 articles published between 1990 and 2023 from indexed journals were identified and analyzed using the bibliometric tool called bibliometrix and Vosviewer software. The objective of this paper is to conduct a bibliometric analysis on work stress and organizational commitment simultaneously, which provides a more holistic picture of this field through the analysis of the evolution of research topics in the field. This analysis shows that the first article published on this topic dates back to 1990. Based on the relationship between the two concepts, the most frequent keywords are: stress, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, performance, satisfaction and work. In addition, gaps are detected in the research on work stress. We argue that there is a need to engage in a more holistic effort to provide a better understanding that will ultimately help practitioners develop effective interventions and useful policies that take into account the many elements that drive the phenomenon.