Level Of Organizational Commitment And Its Associated Factors Among Health Workers Working In Oromia Health Bureau And Sheger City Health Office, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2023

Abstract

Background: Organizational commitment is psychological attachment and loyalty to the organization working for it for long period of time. The employee commitment components are affective commitment, normative commitment and continuance commitment. At the study areas, according to the year 2020/2021 health workers annual report, there was 1.5% health workers turnover for different reasons to be identified by study. Objective: To assess Level of Organizational Commitment and Its Associated Factors Among Health Workers Working In Oromia Health Bureau And Sheger City Health Office, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2023. Method: Institution-based cross-sectional study design was used. The study population was health workers at study area. Total population (480) were included (census) in the study. The data were collected using self-administered structured questionnaire by a second degree holder health professional under supervision. The data were entered in to the Epi-Info Version 7.2.5.0 and analysed by multiple linear regressions using SPSS version 20.0 by (95% =CI and P-value< .05). Result: The generally pooled independent variables mean score entered into multiple linear regression shows almost 28%% of the variance in health workers commitment to the organization was explained by this model. The level of health workers Organizational commitment was 46.75% while mean raw score +Standard Deviation of this scale was 3.42+.44 with a total rotated variance explained (61.13%) using principal component factor extraction analysis. The level of Affective commitment was 62.48%%, normative commitment was 59.44% and that of Continuance commitment was 53.49%. Except Compensation, Training and development, and Leadership style, all factors were statistically insignificant at P-value<.05. Conclusion: The level of overall health workers commitment to organization was lower than 50%. Only affective commitment had high level while others were low level. The Multiple Linear Regression result showed that Leadership style, training and development, and Compensation had statistically significant association on the health workers commitment to organization