Nurses’ Organizational Commitment and Job Performance in a Tertiary Hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Abstract

This research was done to explore the relationship between Organizational Commitment with Perceived Job Performance among nurses in a tertiary hospital in Bahrain. It was assumed that positive work attitude and higher organizational commitment enhances performance of an individual. The need and significance of this research stems to understand the relationship. The cross-sectional survey design was used. The online survey questionnaire was shared with the participants and 408 nurses participated. Analysis of data was done by using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The gender wise mean (SD) scores show that both male and female were having comparable scores for organizational commitment scores and the perceived job performance. The age, years of experience at KHUH and total years of experience shows a positive correlation with organizational commitment and perceived job performance scores. However, the educational qualification of nurses, the job category and the department of work has no significant impact on the organizational commitment and perceived job performance scores. A positive correlation was found between organizational commitment and perceived job performance scores (r - 0.307). Both Affective Commitment and Normative Commitment shows a positive correlation with nurses’ job performance except Continuance Commitment. There is a weak positive correlation with all the subscale domains of Perceived job performance and the organizational commitment scores. Generating an understanding of the nature of nurse’s commitment to the organization should prove useful in planning change, creating readiness for change, predicting the reactions to the change, tracking the progress of change and guiding efforts to enhance the quality of work life.