association of perceived organizational justice and organizational expectations with nurses' efforts

One important factor in growth, progress, and increase in work efficiency of employees of any enterprise is to make considerable effort. Supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran also addressed the issue of need for more efforts. The goal of this study was to determine the association of perceived organizational justice and organizational expectations with efforts of nurses to provide a suitable model. The current study was a descriptive study. The study group consists of all nurses who worked in hospitals of Isfahan. Due to some limitations all nurses of the special unit, surgery wards and operating room were questioned. The data collection tools were the Organizational Justice Questionnaire, organizational expectations questionnaire, and double effort questionnaire. Content validity of the mentioned questionnaires was confirmed after considering the experts' comments. The reliability of these questionnaires, using the Cronbach's alpha, were 0.79, 0.83 and 0.92, respectively. The Pearson correlation and the structural equation model were used for the analysis of data. There was a significant correlation between the perceived organizational justice and the double effort of nurses during the surgery of patients. Correlation of the expectation from job, usefulness of job, and its attractiveness with double effort of nurses before the surgery was also statistically significant. Moreover, it was shown that the root of the mean square error of estimation [RMSEA] was 0.087, the fitted goodness index [GFI] was 0.953, the value of chi-square was 268.5, and the model was statistically significant [p < 0.001]. Today Justice is an essential need for human life and its importance in organizations and social life of individuals is evident.

Function of nurses and other staff to minimize hospital waste in selected hospitals in Isfahan

Medical waste [MW] is all waste materials generated at health care facilities. MW naturally is hazardous for environment and subsequently for human. Waste minimization [WM] is the latest alternative for risk reduction. All hospital staff generally and nurses specially can play an active role through education and the implementation of measures to reduce medical wastage and their environmental effects. This study is aimed to compare nurses and other staff functions in selected hospitals in Isfahan about waste minimization strategies. This is a descriptive analytical study. The study tool was a researcher -designed questionnaire in five area of waste minimization based on WHO recommendation. There were 90 nurses and other staff from randomized selected public and private hospitals of Isfahan as the sample of this research. This study was done in 2009. Data were analyzed by t-test using SPSS16. Nurses mean score of WM performance was 58.16 [12], and others was 58.56 [12.18] [of max 100]. There was no significant difference between nurses and others mean score of WM performance according to t-test. There was not significant difference between WM performances of two studied groups in public and private hospitals based on t-test. Comparing between two studied groups mean scores by waste minimization areas indicated that nurses have done significantly better in source reduction area and other staffs have acted better in waste segregation [P < 0.05]. All of hospital staff specially, nurses have an important role in qualified waste management practice of hospitals. Totally mean score of WM performance in hospitals [nurses and other] was average. With regard to other countries activities, this result is disappointing. So, it is necessary to plan educational programs for hospital staff, especially nurses.

study of relationship between the organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses in selected hospitals of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Numerous researches have been carried out to indicate that organizational justice [OJ] is a variable that anticipates many other variables in organizations, especially in hospitals. Organizational behavior [OCB] is one of the most important variables. We aimed to study the relationship between OJ and OCB of nurses in selected hospitals in Isfahan. This was a descriptive correlational study. The research was conducted among nurses of selected hospitals in Isfahan. Data were gathered using two questionnaires of OJ, and OCB. The t-test, chi-square, and Pearson correlation test were used to analyze the data through SPSS version 13. In general, the mean score [SD] of OJ among nurses was 41.2 [16.2] and the mean score of OCB was 57.7 [18]. Finally, there was no significant relationship between OJ, civil virtue, and sportsmanship. There was a significant relationship between OJ, OCB, courtesy, and conscientiousness. As the scores of OCB and OJ among nurses were average in selected hospitals, the managers of the hospitals should improve the perception of justice among nurses. Today, organizations need efficient and expert workers to achieve their goals, and to grow and improve in all aspects. In fact, the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations depend on the staffs, especially in hospitals.

[ study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among managers in educational hospitals of Isfahan university of medical sciences]

Old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. These changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. The purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the Learning Organization and Organizational Commitment among hospital managers. This is a descriptive analytic survey. The population of study was 210 nursing managers of 9 educational hospitals. Data gathering was done via learning organizational and organizational commitment questionnaires. Data analysis was done in SPSS software. The mean score of learning organizational was 59.5 +/- 18.5 among nursing mangers, and the mean score of organizational commitment was 60.8 +/- 10.8. In general there was a significant relationship between learning organizational and organizational commitment based on Pearson test. In today's changing environment of very rapid changes seen in different areas of science and technology and the increasing complexity and dynamics of environmental factors, only organizations can survive and remain capable of growth that active adaptation [dynamic equilibrium]. This aim can be fulfilled just in learning organizations

[Cost-benefit analysis of Isfahan university of medical sciences database in 2007]

Increasing costs in almost all of the governments and organizations persuade them to analysis their services in financial and economic dimensions. Because of increasing unnecessary costs, community is limited to achieve social effective goals for health services. We surveyed cost accounting of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences database to assess its cost benefit. Current research was descriptive and retrospective. Data collection was carried out through a checklist considering human resource expenditure, consuming material expenditure, capital material depreciation expenditure and Purchase fee. Then the average of expenditure was compared with the amount of article use in each database [Proquest, Blackwell, Springer, Ovid, and Elsevier]. Among databases, Elsevier had the most and Springer had the least cost benefit. Manager of informatics system must use management techniques, such as cost analysis method, to make the best decision to decrease the costs