(through non-financial performance from the employee
perspective).23
Steers (1977) found that there hadn't been
any significant correlation between OC and
staffs' level of education similar to this study.
And there was a significant correlation between
age and OC.24
Although organizational learning theory and
practice have been clarified by practitioners and
scholars over the past several years, there is
much to be explored regarding interactions between
organizational learning culture and employee
learning. Especially in health care systems,
for example hospitals. As Nurses, as the
largest human resource element of health care
systems, have a major role in providing ongoing,
high-quality care for patients25 and since
nurses are 24-hour health service providers on
the front line of contact with patients, and are
essential to hospital operations, nurses' occupational
health is a major hospital management
issue.26 So, the objective of the study was to determine
the relationship between the learning
organization and organizational commitment
among nursing managers.
Methods
This was a descriptive-correlation (or relationship)
survey. Study population was all 90 nursing
managers employed in teaching hospitals of
Isfahan University of Medical Sciences from
October 2008 to February 2009. The managers
were nursing managers (head nurses and supervisors).
Meyer and Allen's questionnaire
was used to collect information for organizational
commitment.8 For the learning organization,
questionnaire was made based on principles
of Peter Senge (researcher made).
Content validity was considered for instrument
validity. Reliability was calculated via
Cronbach's Alpha (r = 0.85). Data analysis was
done by SPSS software version 13 using