Sayed Mohammad Ehsan Farahabadi; marziyeh Fattahi; Mehrzad Artang; Akbar Hassanzadeh
Volume 9, Issue 7 , December 2012, , Pages 997-1005
Abstract
Introduction: One of the most important duties of manager is to organize and maintain enterprisesystems. Managers are responsible for the amount and type of employee commitment to the values oforganization. Committed and loyal workforces have significant impact on health service delivery in healthorganization. ...
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Introduction: One of the most important duties of manager is to organize and maintain enterprisesystems. Managers are responsible for the amount and type of employee commitment to the values oforganization. Committed and loyal workforces have significant impact on health service delivery in healthorganization. The purpose of this study was to identify average of three dimensions of commitment (i.e.affective, continuous and normative commitment) of disaster management and emergency medical staff.Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out in 2011. The staffs of Isfahan Emergency Medicaland Disaster Management Center (Iran) were the study subjects. Sample size was estimated as 128subjects using simple random sampling with 0.2 as the accuracy of sampling. Data were collected usingquestionnaire that its validity and reliability had been tested in past studies. Data were analyzed by SPSSsoftware and application of Spearman correlation and analysis of variance (ANOVA).Results: The mean score of organizational commitment was 59.7. The score of affective commitment was69.2 (first rank), continuance commitment was 50.6 (third rank) and normative commitment was 56.4(second rank). The maximum score was 100.Conclusion: Due to the critical role of emergency medical staff in ensuring the health of people and savethem in case of accidents, it is essential for managers to concentrate on organizational culture and alsocontinuous commitment by activities such as increasing job security, creating positive changes inorganizational culture, providing appropriate training and orientation before the recruitment. Incentiveprograms with the aim of increasing organizational commitment in employees could be another solution
