Citation

Jahani MA, Yaminfirooz M, Siamian H. Mater. Sociomed. 2015; 27(5): 342-346.

Affiliation

Health information Management Department, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Mazandaran, Sari, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, The author(s) or Association for Social Medicine- Public Health of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Publisher Avicena)

DOI

10.5455/msm.2015.27.342-346

PMID

26622203

PMCID

PMC4639351

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to drawing a regression model of organizational climate of central libraries of Iran's universities.

METHODS: This study is an applied research. The statistical population of this study consisted of 96 employees of the central libraries of Iran's public universities selected among the 117 universities affiliated to the Ministry of Health by Stratified Sampling method (510 people). Climate Qual localized questionnaire was used as research tools. For predicting the organizational climate pattern of the libraries is used from the multivariate linear regression and track diagram.

RESULTS: of the 9 variables affecting organizational climate, 5 variables of innovation, teamwork, customer service, psychological safety and deep diversity play a major role in prediction of the organizational climate of Iran's libraries. The results also indicate that each of these variables with different coefficient have the power to predict organizational climate but the climate score of psychological safety (0.94) plays a very crucial role in predicting the organizational climate. Track diagram showed that five variables of teamwork, customer service, psychological safety, deep diversity and innovation directly effects on the organizational climate variable that contribution of the team work from this influence is more than any other variables.

CONCLUSIONS: Of the indicator of the organizational climate of climateQual, the contribution of the team work from this influence is more than any other variables that reinforcement of teamwork in academic libraries can be more effective in improving the organizational climate of this type libraries.

Language: en