The Survey of the Organizational Commitment among Zahedan Medical Sciences Staff in 2015

among the organizations superiority indices evaluation in relation to one another is the employees working in them, the level of loyalty and commitment of whom makes them perform the assigned duties with a higher quality and this in itself can bring about an increase in performance, productivity and organizational efficiency. The present study has been performed aiming at the survey of the organizational commitment among Zahedan medical sciences university staff.

the present study is a descriptive analytical research of the cross-sectional type which has been conducted on 165 individuals from Zahedan medical sciences university all of whom have been selected based on a random method in 2015. To collect the information required for the study there was made use of a two-part questionnaire the first part of which was related to demographic attributes and the second part pertained to Allen and Mayer standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed by taking advantage of SPSS 19 and descriptive statistics, Pierson correlation, variance analysis and independent t-test.

the individuals’ average age was 36.41 ± 9.79, 103 people were women and 140 individuals were married. The organizational commitment total mean score was 73.45 ± 4.55 and the total mean score for affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment were 24.93 ± 2.59, 24.06 ± 2.61 and 24.46 ± 3.25, respectively. The relationship between age, gender and marital status with organizational commitment and each of its components was not statistically significant (P>0.05).

the staff organizational commitment was in an intermediate level. Since, staff commitment can be effective on services quality and the optimum deployment of the resources, it is necessary for the managers to pay more attention to the effective organizational commitment factors including provision of welfare facilities, decision making participation, proper relations and job enrichment.