Relationship between job-related and personal characteristics and organizational commitment in educational hospital of Hamedan, University of medical sciences

Organizational commitment is an important factor in personnel's behavior and organizations output and efficiency. Committed personnel feel themselves dependent to the organization and find their goals as the organization goals. Thus, they will make their effort to achieve the organizational goals and will identify themselves with those goals and will affiliate themselves to their organization. Commitment to one’s organization is of great importance in hospital personnel since hospital staff have a critical place in saving patients’ lives. This study aims at determining the relationship between job -related and personal characteristics and organizational commitment in the personnel of educational hospitals of Hamedan University of medical sciences. This is a cross-sectional study and its samples were chosen from the managers and staff of the mentioned hospitals. 137questionaries were completed and the data was analyzed with descriptive and analytic statistics. The results showed that there is a meaningful relationship between sex, age, record of service, duty branch, level of activity and organizational commitment, Also, Salary, education, type of recruitment, marriage and shift, do not indicate any meaningful relationship. The Organizational commitment in men is more than women and it is increased with age and their history of hospital work. The managers have more organizational commitment than other staff and the medical staff have the least commitment. Commitment in senior managers is more than other managers and personnel as well. Based on the results, the level of organizational commitment can change with the factors of gender, age, record of service, field and level of activity.