Relationship between organizational commitment and productivity of psycho-rehabilitation team members: Razi Medical and Educational Psychiatry Center (2011)

Organizational commitment necessitates employees continuing to work in the same organization for a longer period of time. The present study aimed at exploring the relationship between organizational commitment and productivity of psycho-rehabilitation team members. In this correlational study، 90 members from 291 psycho-rehabilitation team members of Razi center who were selected by stratified sampling out of the staff with different disciplines were assessed. Allen-Meyer organizational commitment questionnaire (Content Validity Index) /CVI =0. 68; test، re-test reliability=%94، and Heresy and Goldsmith productivity questionnaire (CVI=0. 61; test، re-test reliability=%88. 2) were used to evaluate the participants organizational commitment. Both questionnaires were self-contained. After trying the normality of the distribution of the points by means of Kolmogorov Smirnov correlation between productivity and each component of organizational commitment was evaluated using Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficient. The study population included 10 psychiatrists، 11 occupational therapists، 15 psychologists، 9 social workers، and 45 nurses. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between organizational commitment and productivity (r=0. 357)، between affective commitment and productivity (r=0. 239)، between continuous commitment and productivity (r=0. 303)، and between normative commitment and productivity of psycho-rehabilitation team members (r=0. 275). In general، it is necessary to promote productivity of rehabilitation teams through planning for due efforts and necessary interventions.