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. 2018 Jan-Dec:23:2515690X18790726.
doi: 10.1177/2515690X18790726.

Role of Organizational Climate in Job Involvement: A Way to Develop the Organizational Commitment of Nursing Staff

Rohollah Kalhor  1 , Omid Khosravizadeh  1 , Saeideh Moosavi  1 , Mohammad Heidari  2 , Hasan Habibi  1
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Role of Organizational Climate in Job Involvement: A Way to Develop the Organizational Commitment of Nursing Staff

Rohollah Kalhor et al. J Evid Based Integr Med. 2018 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

Employees are the most valuable assets of an organization; therefore, it is very important to understand their behavior. In this regard, the present study was carried out in order to examine the effect of organizational climate on job involvement among nurses working in the teaching hospitals of Qazvin Province, Iran. The present descriptive analytical study was done in 2017. To randomly select a specific proportion of nurses from each of Qazvin teaching hospitals, stratified sampling was used. In total, 340 nurses were selected. Data were collected using 3 questionnaires: Halpin and Kraft Organizational Climate Questionnaire, Job Involvement Questionnaire (Kanungo), and Allen and Myer Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. For data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used applying AMOS-24 software. The results of path analysis showed the effect of organizational climate on the nurses' job involvement. Moreover, organizational climate influenced organizational commitment through the mediation of job involvement. According to values obtained for degree of freedom based on chi-square, goodness-of-fit index, root mean square error of approximation, and comparative fit index were in the defined range; therefore, the validity of the conceptual model was approved. Based on the results of the present study, managers of health organizations can achieve their goals by understanding the organizational climate of the hospitals and its effect on the employees' job involvement and discovering strategies needed for organizational commitment improvement.

Keywords: job involvement; nursing staff; organization; organizational climate.

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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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