The Study of Organization Commitment and Job Satisfaction among Hospital Nurses. A Survey of District Hospitals of Dera Ismail Khan
This research study aims to investigate the antecedents, measures the association and to which extent demographics influence job satisfaction and organizational commitment of nursing staffs of two teaching hospitals of Dera Ismail Khan. The total N of the study was 125 respondents of two Teaching Hospitals of Dera Ismail Khan. The data analyzed with help of SPSS-16 software program for testing of hypothesis. The correlation test was applied to measure the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Similarly, multiple regression tests were used for investigating the cause and effect relationship between predictor’s variables and criterion variable and to check the impact of demographics, t-test was used. The result of the study showed that the nurse’s perceptions about Pay, work, Promotion, coworker, supervision, and work environment (Khan et al, 2009; Khan et al, 2011) are the most vital factors of employee’s satisfaction and important forecasters of organizational commitment. These results of the contemporary scholars also supported that job satisfaction and organizational commitment were correlated (Mannheim, & Baruch, 1997; Busch et al, 1998; Yousef, 1998; Lum et al, 1998; Al-Aameri 2000). The hypothesis of association between the job satisfaction and organizational commitment has been statistically confirmed. The results indicate that pay, promotion and work environment are most significant factors shaping organizational commitment of nurses in teaching hospitals of Dera Ismail khan. In addition, some factors are playing a secondary role in predicting organizational commitment such as work, coworker, and supervision.
