Organizational Commitment and Quality of Work Life Among Nurses, Medical College Hospitals, Dhaka, The People’s Republic of Bangladesh
Keywords:
Quality of work life, Organizational commitment, Nurse, Medical College HospitalAbstract
The quality of work life of nurses is a crucial issue for nurse administrators in order to achieve organizational goals. This descriptive correlational study aimed to explore the level of organizational commitment and quality of work life as perceived by nurses and to explore the relationship between each component of organizational commitment and quality of work life among nurses in medical college hospitals in Dhaka, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The subjects were 324 nurses working in the three medical college hospitals of Dhaka, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. Data collection was carried out from February to March 2015. The research instruments include the Organizational Commitment Scale (OCS) and the Quality of Nursing Work Life Survey (QNWL Survey), which were translated into Bangla without any modification by the researcher. The OCS and the QWNL Survey were confirmed for validity by the developers. The reliability coefficients of the three component of the OCS were .76, .87 and .88 respectively, and that of the QNWL Survey was .92. Descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient were used to analyze data.
The results of this study showed that:
- The mean score of the three components of organizational commitment as perceived by nurses were at a high level.
- The mean score of overall quality of work life, as well as the four dimensions of quality of work life as perceived by nurses were at a moderate level.
- There was a significant moderate positive correlation between each component of organizational commitment and quality of work life among nurses.
The results of this study would provide baseline information for hospital and nurse administrators in order to develop strategies to improve quality of work life and maintain organizational commitment among nurses in the medical college hospitals, Dhaka, the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.
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