Relation of job adaptability and professional competencies of the educational department Of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education staff

Abstract Undoubtedly, improvement of job adaptability is one of the important components for increasing professional competencies of employees. Considering the importance of job adaptability and professional competence of staff in improving the quality of service, organizations are trying to empower their staff to provide better quality services and improve their professional competence in practice. In this study, the relationship between job adaptability and professional competencies of the staff of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education was discussed. The study was descriptive. The population of the Research Department of the Ministry of Health staff and According to Morgan table the sample size of 169 people. In this study, Savisas and Porfeli's Job Adaptability Questionnaire (2012) and a researcher-made professional competency questionnaire were used. In this study, the mean of dimension of attitude over average of other dimensions of employees' professional competence and the average of occupational occupational dimension were more than the average of other dimensions of occupational adaptability of the employees studied. The relationship between job adaptability variable and its dimensions including job control, job curiosity and job trust with professional competency variables were statistically significant (p-value< 0.05) and relationship between occupational duty and professional competency variables was not statistically significant. According to the results of this study, one can understand the relationship between job adaptability and professional competencies of employees, and they have to step up their coordination. Considering that the impact of job adaptability on employees' merit is more than average evaluated in this research, it is necessary to emphasize on the adaptability of employees in order to benefit from their improvement in employee professional competencies.