THE ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF REHABILITATION NURSES IN THE AUTONOMOUS REGION OF MADEIRA: A CHARACTERIZATION STUDY

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Nélio
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Jesus, Élvio, Bettencourt, Merícia, Ornelas, Bruna
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.29073/jim.v4i1.748
• topic: Enfermagem; Comprometimento Organizacional; Serviço de Saúde da Região Autónoma da Madeira; Nursing; Organizational Commitment; Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Maeira

Background: The organizational commitment, has an influence on phenomena such as absenteeism, turnover, punctuality, citizenship behaviors and in the performance of employees, demonstrating that committed employees are decisive in obtaining competitive advantages and in the success of all organizations. Aims: Describe the levels of organizational commitment, in the affective, calculative and normative components, of the Rehabilitation Nurses of the Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, as well as the association between the levels of Organizational Commitment and the characterization variables of the study population and the correlation with the variable age. Methodology: Quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study. Measurement using the organizational commitment scale. Results: N of 133 and n of 114 rehabilitation nurses. The global organizational commitment presented an average value of 4.50, whereas in the affective component the average was 5,04, followed by calculative component with 4,51 and normative with 3,95. Higher levels of organizational commitment was obtained in nurses: working in inpatient rehabilitation facilities and at the Hospital care; male gender; older age; working longer in the institution; widowers; with a bachelor’s degree; simultaneously exercising management and providing specialized care; with public functions employment contract; with fixed schedule; who do not intend to change workplace currently. Only in affective component of organizational commitment was identified a significant, positive and weak correlation, with older ages associated with higher scores in the affective component of organizational commitment (Rho = .0214, n = 86, p = .048). Conclusions: The nurses who are part of this study are on average moderately committed to the organization. The affective component was the one that obtained more expressive values following the calculative and normative components. Future research should study the correlation of characterization variables on levels of organizational commitment.