The Relationship between Organizational and Professional Commitment to Empower Nurses in Milad Hospital

Subject Areas : medical documents

mahbobeh akbari sefedeh ¹ , shahram hashemnia ² , Hadi Rezghi Shirsavar ³

1 - MA Department of Educational Management Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Education Management, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar Branch University, Garmsar, Iran

Received: 2018-04-21 Accepted : 2018-05-27 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: organizational commitment, Professional Commitment, Empowerment of nurses,

Abstract :

Introduction: One of the most important determinants of organizations success is the presence of manpower committed to organization their careers. On the other hand, in recent years, empowering human resources has been used as a way to create efficiency and productivity. In this respect, purpose study was to investigate the relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment and professional commitment of nurses in Milad hospital Methods: The method of collecting this descriptive-survey and applied study was questionnaire (Validity and reliability was evaluated with a formal approach and Cronbach's alpha test (0.932)). Population was 807 Nurses and sample according to Cochran formula was 261 Nurses. To analyze the hypotheses, inferential tests were used. Results: In the significance level less than 0.05, nurses' empowerment with organizational commitment and professional commitment has a positive and significant correlation (correlation coefficient is 0.908 and 0.797). Also, nurses' empowerment and their dimensions, organizational commitment and its dimensions, and professional commitment in Milad Hospital are higher than average (3). And the mean of these variables is not significantly different in age groups, education, gender and experience. Conclusion: Considering the relationship between nursing empowerment, organizational commitment, and professional commitment among the nurses in Milad Hospital, it can be concluded that efforts to improve nurses' ability can be a valuable strategy to improve organizational commitment and professional commitment.

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