The aim of this study is to investigate whether nonpaid volunteers have other reasons to be a member of an organization than paid workers. Volunteers are assumed to be hard to manage, because there is no ‘‘stick of a paid contract’’ to keep them in line. Therefore, we studied different dimensions (i.e., affective, normative, and continuance) of organizational commitment of volunteers and paid w...

Background: This study provides empirical evidence of the relationships among learning organization, internal marketing, and organizational commitment. Internal marketing assists hospital administrators in improving the quality of service provided by nursing staff to their patients and allows hospitals to build a learning culture and enhance the organizational commitment of its nursing staff. M...

introduction: one of the most important duties of manager is to organize and maintain enterprise systems. managers are responsible for the amount and type of employee commitment to the values of organization. committed and loyal workforces have significant impact on health service delivery in health organization. the purpose of this study was to identify average of three dimensions of commitmen...

The general purpose of this work is to analyze the overlap between organizational identification and commitment. Specifically, our study focuses on the analysis of the differences and similarities between sense of belonging (a dimension of organizational identification) and affective commitment (a dimension of organizational commitment). In order to do this, we analyzed their discriminant valid...

abstract background and objective: efficient human resource is the major advantage of an organization over others. commitment to organization not only may reduce sick leave, delays and displacements but also give rise to a significant increase in productivity, more vitality among staff, better attainment of the organizations' goals and personal aims. this study aimed to evaluate the relati...

the purpose of this article is to investigate the relationships among employees' trust in organization, reciprocity norm in organization and employees' organizational identification. furthermore, authors seek to analyze the moderating effect of organizational commitment components on these relationships. this research was performed using correlation-descriptive method. the statistical populatio...

background: organizational climate is one of the effective factors in organizational commitment. organizational climate affects organizational staff behaviors. the aim of current study was to assess the relation between organizational climate components with organizational commitment components among nurses in selected hospitals of tums in 2011.   methods: this study was cross - sectional surve...

Managing change effectively is a main challenge in the domain of change management. For organization managers must understand influencing factors which can force employees to motivate for change situation. This research focuses to examine the employees’ attitudes and behaviors by commitment with the organization and career. Before, employees’ commitment with the organization has been examined a...

nowadays, development of any society depends on the health of the organization. a healthy organization is where people love the work and are proud to be part of that organization. this study investigated the relationship between organizational health and organizational commitment of personnel in selected hospitals affiliated with ahwaz jundishapur university of medical sciences in 2011. this st...