Abstract:
Background:The magnitude of staff perception of organizational commitment reflects an
employee's loyalty to the organization. This indirectly indicates organizational success and
wellbeing.However, there is the scarcity of information about perceived organizational
commitmentand its associated factors among nurses working at Jimma university medical center.
Objective:To assess magnitude oforganizational commitment and associated factors among
nurses working in Jimma university medical center, south west Ethiopia.
Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study design was conducted at Jimma University
Medical Center frommarch1 to 18, 2019 on 221 rondomly selected nurses. The data were
collected using a self-administered questionnaire. After chekingthe completeness of the
questioner the data were entered in to Epi data version 3.1 and analyzed by SPSS version 23.0
for statistical analysis. Simple (at P-value <0.25)and multivariable linear regression (at Pvalue <0.05) analysis were used to to identify independent predictors of organizational
commitment.Finally, the findings were presented using graphs, tables, narratives and descriptive
numerical summarymeusure.
Results:Theover allpercentage mean score of organizational commitment was 52% (SD=9.9).
Work experience (β=4.39, 95%CI: (0.424,8.36), monthly salary (-β=2.94, 95%CI: (-5.72,-
0.162), perceived role influence on their jobs scale score (β=2.09, 95%CI:(0.979,3.21),
perceived nurses motivation on punctuality scale score (β=1.43, 95%CI: (0.419,2.43), perceived
nurses satisfaction scale score (β=1.378, 95%CI: (0.179,2.578) were significantpredictors of
nurses organizational commitment.
Conclusion:The magnitude of organizational commitment among nurses working at Jimma
University Medical Center was low work experience, salary, influence at worke, satisfaction and
level of motivation were predictors of job comitmnent. Thereforehospital managers should
establish appropriate reward systems to increase nurses satisfaction and their organizational
commitment.
