Relationship between job characteristics and organizational commitment : a descriptive analytical study

Abstract EN

Background: Many factors influence the organizational commitment of employees.

One of these factors is job designing since it affects the attitude, beliefs, and feelings of the organization employees.

Objectives: We aimed to determine the relationship between job characteristics and organizational commitment among the employees of hospitals.

Patients and Methods: In this descriptive and correlational study, 152 Iranian employees of the hospitals (physicians, nurses, and administrative staff) were selected through stratified random sampling.

Data gathered using 3-part questionnaire of “demographic information”, “job characteristics model,” and “organizational commitment,” in 2011.

Study data were analyzed using SPSS v.

16.

Results: There was significant statistical correlation between organizational commitment and variables of educational level (P = 0.001) and job category (P = 0.001).

Also, a direct and significant correlation existed between motivating potential score and job feedback on one hand and organizational commitment on the other hand (P = 0.014).

Conclusions: According to the results, managers of the hospitals should increase staff’s commitment through paying attention to proper job designing.