The Association between Quality of Work Life and Organization Commitment among Health Personnel Who Practicing in Tambon Health Promoting Hospital, Pattani Province

Abstract

This descriptive research aimed to determine the association between quality of work life and organizational commitment among health personnel who practicing in Tambon health promoting hospital, Pattani Province. There were 694 health personnel who work at health promoting hospital, Pattani Province during 2018 fiscal year. 260 samples were calculated by Daniel formula and systematic random sampling was used for sample selection. Questionnaires with three parts were administered to participants, parts 1) general characteristics, part 2) quality of work life and part 3) organizational commitments. These questionnaires were proved by three specialists before trying out. Cronbach’s coefficient alpha test showed reliability level at 0.93. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient be used for association analysis

The result showed that quality of work life factors including, adequate and fair compensation, health and safety at workplace, opportunity for human capacity development, opportunity for job security and advancement, social integration, constitutionalism, the total work and life space, and organizational pride had mean score with high level (56.1%) (=3.77, S.D.=0.42). Moreover, organizational commitment including, the confidence and acceptance through an organization goals and values, the willingness to use their best efforts to work for the benefit of organization, the strong desire to retain its membership in an organization had mean score with high level (61.9%)( =3.81, S.D.=0.36). An association analysis found that quality of work life factors was associated with organizational commitment among health personnel who practicing in health promoting hospital, Pattani Province with statistical significant (r=0.34, P-value<0.001). Moreover, quality of work life considering were positive association with organizational commitment among health personnel including; health and safety at workplace (r=0.20, P-value0.001), opportunity for human capacity development(r=0.43, P-value<0.001), opportunity for job security and advancement (r=0.22, P-value<0.001), social integration (r=0.16, P-value0.007), constitutionalism (r=0.31, P-value<0.001), the total work and life space (r=0.31, P-value<0.001), and organizational pride (r=0.40, P-value<0.001),respectively. However, an adequate and fair compensation were not association (r0.03, P-value 0.613).