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Factors Building Commitment of Healthcare Workers

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This paper presents the result of research on organizational commitment in the sector of health protection. 150 doctors and nurses employed in three hospitals in Lodz and in two Sanitary and Epidemiological Stations located in Lodz participated in the research. Gallupa Test (G12) was used to measure the engagement together with in-depth structured individual interviews (IDI). The research showed a problem of the lack of balance of resources and work demands, which results in the decrease of the affective commitment and causes the danger of professional burnout of medical staff. The engagement in the group of respondents increased with age but in none of the age categories both among doctors and nurses exceeded the level of 37%.

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    The opt-out clause is a written statement of a person on duty (most often a physician) about giving consent to work in excess of 48 h per week in the adopted settlement period. Signing this clause is very often a problem in determining the actual working time of a given doctor. The opt-out directive stipulates that the physician may or may not, individually, voluntarily agree to extend the working time beyond 48 h during a week and the employer is not allowed to discriminate or draw consequences against an employee who does not give such consent.

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  1. Department of Management Systems and Innovation, Lodz University of Technology, Piotrkowska 266, 90-924, Lodz, Poland

    Anna Stankiewicz-Mróz

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    Nancy J. Lightner

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Stankiewicz-Mróz, A. (2019). Factors Building Commitment of Healthcare Workers. In: Lightner, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 779. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94373-2_16

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