Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave among Hospitals’ Employees in Tehran Hospitals

• Published in: Bīmāristān (Tihrān) Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 19 - 29
• Main Authors: M Mahdavi, M Arab, M Mahmoudi, a Fayazbakhsh, f Akbari
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 01.03.2014
• Subjects: affective commitment; continuance commitment; hospital`s employee; intention to leave; normative commitment; organizational commitment
• ISSN: 2008-1928; 2228-7450

Background: This study is aimed to compare organizational commitment and intention to leave among employees in Teheran`s hospitals. Materials and Methods: In this survey 3 hospitals with different ownership`s type were examined included: A public hospital, a hospital owned by Social Security Organization, and a private hospital. The data were collected by distributing 450, questionnaires among 450 employees, which were randomly chosen. Results: Among all studied subjects few employees allocated high score of organizational commitment to themselves .This average rate is nearly 20%. Committed employees were impressively low in the Social Security hospitals compared to others. Comparing intention to leave indicate revealed the Public hospital`s employees have lowest scores among all subjects. There is a statistical significant correlation between commitment`s components and intention to leave. Conclusion: Generally the majority of employees have average and low organizational commitment. Employees with high level of commitment and high level of intention to leave make a small proportion of all hospital employees. Social security hospitals must be taken into consideration due to the levels of commitment and intention to leave.