Organizational Commitment and Performance of Health Centres IV workers in Greater Mbarara, South western Uganda

Abstract

The rationale of this paper is to study association between Organizational commitment, and performance of Health Centres IV workers in greater Mbarara District, South Western Uganda. The elements of organizational commitment include; affective, continuance and normative. This study used prevalence study designs, explanatory and correlational methods, and it uses health centres IV workers data that were selected in the means of administering a questionnaire survey from a sample of 200 health workers from 11 health centres from the region. Structural equation modelling was used to test hypotheses. Findings recommended that affective and continuance organizational commitments, were significantly associated with health workers performances (r=.384, p=.000).Normative organizational commitment, elements do not significantly envisage health workers performance. Therefore, health centres IV should have suitable practices of ensuring attachment of health workers to their health facilities, so as to accomplish activities that enhance on their task/job performance.