The Relationship between Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Social Orientation, and the Nurse's Moral Behavior

Nursing due to its demand to work under high pressure, night shifts, deal with difficulties and other reasons has always been associated with stress and mental pressure, and its duties have always been intertwined with moral issues. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the relationship be tween organizational commitment, job satisfaction and social orientation, and moral behavior of the nurses w orking in hospitals in Varamin.
The present research was a correlational descriptive study. The study population consisted of all nurses working in Shahid Mofatteh and 15-e-Khordad hospitals in the city of Varamin in 2015, out of which 120 nurses were randomly selected .T he participants answered the questions regarding demographic variables, and completed the standardized questi onnaires of organizational commitment, job satisfaction, social orientation, and moral behavior. The data were analyzed by using SPSS s tatistical software version 19.
Ethical Considerations: After presenting the research objectives, emphasizing the anonymi ty of questionnaires and confidentiality of personal information, and getting a written informed consent, the questionnaires were handed to the participants. Data collection was conducted by people of the same sex as nurses.
Findings: A total of 120 nurse (78 females and 42 males) with a mean and standard deviation of 32.67±4.39 years participated in this study. Mean and standard deviations were 60.66±13.50 for organizational commitment, 142.20±28.52 for job satisfaction, 83.58±19.38 for social orientation, and 53.67±10.09 for moral behavior. Organizational commitment (r=0.5 71), job satisfaction (r=0.438) and social orientation (r=0.295) presented a significant positive relationship with the moral behavior of the nurses. Moreover, there was a significant pos itive correlation between organizational commitment and nurses’ job satisfaction, and also between job satisfaction and the nurses’ social orientation (P≤0.01). O rganizational commitment, job satisfaction and social orientation could significantly predict 52.7 percent of the nurses’ moral behavioral changes. According to the standard beta of the variable, it can be stated that organizational commitment had a greater contribution than job satisfaction and social orientation in the predictions.
Re gard ing the positive significant relationship between the predicting variables and moral behavior of the nurses, running appropriate workshops is recommended.