Organizational Commitment in the Employees Working in Hospitals Affiliated to the Zabol University of Medical Sciences
Journal Title: Journal of Health Sciences and Technology - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: Organizational commitment as an attitude and working method can have beneficial consequences for planning, organizing, increasing the efficiency, high performance, reducing absenteeism and delay, and specialized, committed human resources, and consistent with organizational goals have tendency towards the organization membership and work beyond their assigned duties. Therefore, this study was conducted aiming to determine the ratio of organizational commitment and its related factors among the employees working in hospitals affiliated to the Zabol University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study of cross-sectional type was performed on 152 employees working in hospitals affiliated to the Zabol University of Medical Sciences. Data collection tool in this research was Allen and Meyer organizational commitment questionnaire. Data analysis was performed by SPSS19 software and independent t-test and one way ANOVA, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis, Pearson correlation coefficient were used and significance level was considered as 0.05. Results: In this study, 152 people were investigated, that 68 (44.7%) people were female and 84 (55.3%) people were male. The mean age of participants and work experience was equal to 31.76±7.51 and 7.38±6.88 years, respectively. There was a significant difference between organizational commitment and normative commitment of people with various employment statuses; there was a significant and negative relationship between education and organizational commitment. Conclusions: According to the results of study, managers should increase commitment (paying attention to the competency and merit of employees in assigning duties to them and identifying their ability and talent) to drive the hospital towards its real purpose: "Maintaining, Retrieving and Promoting Health
Authors and Affiliations
Samira Elhamirad, Obeidollah Faraji, Abbas Ali Ramazani, Ali Reza Amirabadizadeh
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