An investigation into determining factors in organizational commitment(Case study of Shiraz’s health care training centers employees)

摘要

Aiming at studying the contributing factors in establishing and strengthening organizational commitment, the study deals with how factors such as job security, participation in ownership, participation in goal-setting and participation in decision-makings can make a difference in health care training center employees’ organizational commitment in the city of Shiraz. The present research is an applied research by purpose, and a descriptive-correlational research in nature. The population of the research consisted of all health care training center employees of Shiraz, for which a number of 346 employees were selected as sample using statistical directions. Data collection was conducted using a standard questionnaire based on a stratified sampling. The reliability of the questionnaire was ensured and obtained 0.86 through Cronbach’s alpha. Moreover, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data. At descriptive statistic level, statistical indexes such as mean, standard deviation, frequency, frequency percent, and a multivariate regression test, bivariate regression, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Durbin-Watson test and chi-square test were used at inferential statistic level. According to the research results, it was shown that level of participation in decision-making, job security, participation in goal-setting, and participation in ownership are the most influential factors in establishing and strengthening health care training center employees’ commitment in the study population, respectively.