The Relationship between Teleworking, Employee Loyalty and Organizational Commitment from the Perspective of Medical Experts of Golestan Province

Teleworking is choosing a method for performing a task which allows the employees to perform the whole or a part of their tasks outside the workplace. Considering goals such as increasing efficiency, flexible working, reducing the employees’ commuting and avoiding transportation costs and reducing air pollution, teleworking will result in increase of job satisfaction and loyalty and commitment in employees. Increase of employees’ self-awareness makes the organizations to seek for different work patterns and create appropriate infrastructures and design a new structure for accomplishing their mission, thus the current research aims to survey the relationship between teleworking, employee loyalty and organizational commitment from the perspective of experts and managers of Golestan University of Medical Sciences. The current research method is descriptive-correlative survey, and the population includes all of the staff and managers of Gorgan Province University of Medical Sciences. The number of staff and managers was 1000 individuals among which 278 individuals were chosen based on the Morgan Table and by the use of stratified random sampling. The 9-item teleworking questionnaire of Soleymanzadeh (2011), 7-item employee loyalty questionnaire of Mostafazadeh (2007) and 24-item organizational commitment of Allen and Meyer (1990) were used for measuring the research hypotheses, and after ensuring about the above mentioned questionnaires’ validity and reliability and distributing them among the statistical sample and colleting them, the information were then analyzed. The research hypotheses were tested by the use of statistical techniques and SPSS19 software and Pearson correlation test and Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test. Data analysis results showed that a correlation exists between the teleworking, employee loyalty and organizational commitment, and also a correlation exists between the components of loyalty and organizational commitment with employees’ teleworking.