Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave among Hospital's Employees in Tehran Hospitals

This study is aimed to compare organizational commitment and intention to leave among employees in Teheran`s hospitals. In this survey 3 hospitals with different ownership`s type were examined included: A public hospital، a hospital owned by Social Security Organization، and a private hospital. The data were collected by distributing 450، questionnaires among 450 employees، which were randomly chosen. Among all studied subjects few employees allocated high score of organizational commitment to themselves. This average rate is nearly 20%. Committed employees were impressively low in the Social Security hospitals compared to others. Comparing intention to leave indicate revealed the Public hospital`s employees have lowest scores among all subjects. There is a statistical significant correlation between commitment`s components and intention to leave. Generally the majority of employees have average and low organizational commitment. Employees with high level of commitment and high level of intention to leave make a small proportion of all hospital employees. Social security hospitals must be taken into consideration due to the levels of commitment and intention to leave.