TY - JOUR T1 - The Investigation of the Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Organizational Commitment TT - رابطه بین کیفیت زندگی‌کاری و تعهد سازمانی کارکنان ستادی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تربت حیدریه JF - thums-jms JO - thums-jms VL - 1 IS - 3 UR - http://jms.thums.ac.ir/article-1-54-en.html Y1 - 2013 SP - 50 EP - 58 KW - Quality of Work Life KW - Organizational Commitment KW - Affective Commitment KW - Normative Commitment KW - Continuance Commitment. N2 - Background: This research was conducted to investigate the relationship between the quality of work life and organizational commitment at Torbat Heydariye University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: The population consisted of 329employees who were selected randomly. To measure quality of work life and organizational commitment, Valton questionnaire and Allen & Meyer questionnaire were used, respectively. Results: Findings revealed that there was a positive correlation between the quality of work life and organizational commitment (r=0.56) moreover, the quality of work life and organizational commitment in this organization was satisfactory and more than average. This study also showed that there was a positive correlation between quality of work life &affective commitment and  between quality of work life & normative commitment, but there was no significant correlation between quality of life & continuance commitment (r=0.22). Conclusion: Regression analysis indicated that fair compensation can predict organizational commitment more than other factors. Programs of quality of work life can increase employees' confidence and ability to solve problems which lead to promoting in job satisfaction and organizational commitment M3 ER -