Abstract
Background: Commitment represent a strong desire to maintain nursing staff of an organization, it reflects nursing staff to achieve the organization's goals and values, a desire to stay with the organization and willingness to exert much effort to organization. Aim: assess the factors affecting nursing staff commitment at general hospitals in Damietta city. Methods and methods: A descriptive design was utilized with a sample of 421 nursing staff working at all inpatient units at Damietta general hospitals. Tools of data collection: The study tool consists of three parts ; part (I) :personal characteristicsincluded personal and job characteristics , part (II) :Three-component organizational commitment questionnaire to measure types of nurses' commitment and the degree of nurses' commitment to their work, part (III) :factors affecting nurse's commitment questionnaire to assess the factors affecting nurses' commitment at workplace. Results: More than two thirds 70.5% of nursing staff had moderate total commitment. Conclusion: Revealed that the highest percentage among factor affecting commitment was feeling their place of work is equitable and the lowest one was for voice concern. Therefore, the study Recommendations: Orientation program for new nurses to know the goals, policies, objectives and regulation of the organization and evaluate the training needs of nursing staff periodically to develop their skill and information, regular meeting between hospital administrations, nursing administrator and nursing staff to express their concerns, and opinions and discuss their work problem and solve it.
Highlights
Organizational commitment (OC) is an important area of study to many researchers because the organizational outcome of this behavior or value, it may help to determine many work related to the employee's desire to continue working with particular organization (Govindasamy & Jayasingam, 2008)
Commitment based organizations believe that OC contributes to enhance workforce and better patient services, OC as a psychological concept has been identified as an important factor, which plays a significant role in the relationship between nurse's staff and organization (Benligiray & Sonmez, 2012)
Organizational commitment contributes to enhance workforce and better patient services, OC as a psychological concept has been identified as an important factor, which plays a significant role in the relationship between nurse's staff and organization
Summary
Organizational commitment (OC) is an important area of study to many researchers because the organizational outcome of this behavior or value, it may help to determine many work related to the employee's desire to continue working with particular organization (Govindasamy & Jayasingam, 2008). OC is "the degree to which an individual adapts with organizational values, goals and identifies with them in fulfilling their job responsibilities (Tanriverdi, 2008). Commitment based organizations believe that OC contributes to enhance workforce and better patient services, OC as a psychological concept has been identified as an important factor, which plays a significant role in the relationship between nurse's staff and organization (Benligiray & Sonmez, 2012). The organizational success depends on commitment of its nursing staff. It is an important factor in nursesretention, motivation and job satisfaction. The high committed staff may contribute to low rate of turnover and absenteeism Commitment represent a strong desire to maintain nursing staff of an organization, it reflects nursing staff to achieve the organization's goals and values, a desire to stay with the organization and willingness to exert much effort to organization
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
