title: Role of Organizational Climate in Organizational Commitment: The Case of Teaching Hospitals.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The commitment of employees is affected by several factors, including factors related to the organizational climate. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational commitment of nurses and the organizational climate in hospital settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 at two teaching hospitals in Yazd, Iran. A total of 90 nurses in these hospitals participated. We used stratified random sampling of the nursing population. The required data were gathered using two valid questionnaires: Allen and Meyer's organizational commitment standard questionnaire and Halpin and Croft's Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire. Data analysis was done through SPSS 20 statistical software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). We used descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlation coefficient for the data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The findings indicated a positive and significant correlation between organizational commitment and organizational climate (r = 0.269, p = 0.01). There is also a significant positive relationship between avoidance of organizational climate and affective commitment (r = 0.208, p = 0.049) and between focus on production and normative and continuance commitment (r = 0.308, p = 0.003).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improving the organizational climate could be a valuable strategy for improving organizational commitment.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Management Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Amin
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bahrami
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Management Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran; Health Human Resource Research Center, School of Management and Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
authors.forename: Omid
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Barati
authors.affiliation: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
authors.forename: Malake-Sadat
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Ghoroghchian
authors.affiliation: Hospital Management Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
authors.forename: Razieh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Montazer-Alfaraj
authors.affiliation: Health Policy Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ranjbar Ezzatabadi
keywords: hospital; nurse; organizational climate; organizational commitment