Assessment of organizational commitment level of the nurses working at A private hospital

It is very important that organizations create organizational commitment of their staff and determine the factors that affects the commitment to provide and increase success, to reach goals, to increase motivation, performance, productivity and work satisfaction, to decrease losses (labor, cost-damage, prestige) while there is an intensive competition between all organizations. The study is made in a private hospital to determine the level of commitment of the nurses who are a very big part of the labor force and if those levels differ based on the factors affect organizational commitment. The study is made in a private hospital located in Istanbul on between the dates 12.12.2014 to 12.24.2014. For the evaluation, an 18 question "Three Dimentional Organizational Commitment Scale" developed by Meyer and Allen (1990) which translated by Çetin (2006) and a 21 question "Personal Questionnaire" developed based on literature information are used. Çetin (2006) is determined the organizational commitment alpha value as approximately 0,76. In the study, after the analysis of reliability of the organizational commitment scale, Cronbach's Alpha coefficient is found 0,70. For statistical indication, Shapiro-Wilk test, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Benferonni corrected Mann Whitney U test are used. The relationship between the permanent variables are analysed by Spearman correlation. In all statistical analysis in the study, comparisons that have a p value of under 0,05 are accepted as statistically significant. In the organizational commitment scale, the average of the five Likert values are accepted as 1-2,49 is low grade, 2,5-3,49 is middle grade, 3,5-5 is high grade. 150 nurses working at a private hospital are chosen as the universe of the study but 109 of them were volunteerly included in the analysis. 72,6% of the universe created the sample. As a result of the research, the literature information and analyses showed that nurses participated who work at a private hospital detected that they are fairly commited to their organization and demographic changes such as gender, salary, if they perform their job because they want to, their occupational productivity expressions significantly affected their organizational commitment. On other factors analysed, there is no significant differences found. Seniority, psychological or physical harrasment, physical problems, and psychological problems are not evaluated because there was not enough attendance. Smoking, weekly working hours, working pattern, chil presence, living area, marital status, level of education are not affected organizational commitment. Key Words: Nurse, organizational commitment, hospital