Relationship of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in hospital nurses

Organizational commitment and job satisfaction are two important factors in predicting and understanding organizational behavior that their analysis can help supervisors to identify the potential problems. Organization’s staffs are the index of that organization’s superiority. This study was conducted to investigate the relationships between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in Iranian hospital nurses. In a descriptive- correlation study, 132 nurses with the certificate higher than Associate Degree (AD), with formal membership and at least 3 years of experience in the company were participated. Data were collected by job satisfaction Luthanz and organizational commitment of Allen & Meyer questionnaire. Data were analyzed using chi square test and SPSS 11 software. ­ 43.17% of nurses were satisfied with their job and 40.17% of nurses had organizational commitment. There was a significant correlation between job satisfaction and organizational commitment (p<0.001), also there was a significant correlation between organizational commitment and housing and marriage status, but it was not correlated with sex, education and organizational post. Likewise, job satisfaction had significant correlation with education, marriage status and sex, but hadn’t significant correlation with other demographic variables. The presence of some factors which cause staff motivation and encouraging behavior of manager and the leadership style can be effective for organizational commitment and job satisfaction.