The Relationship between Career Development and Organizational Commitment among Faculty of Nursing Teaching Staff

Career development program is one of the potential methods for organizations to invest their employees. Organization's interest in the development of employee career can be perceived as a form of organizational support that linked to increase organizational commitment. Objective: This study aims to assess the relation between career development and organizational commitment among faculty of nursing teaching staff. Design: The study uses a descriptive correlational research design to achieve the aim of the study. Subjects: The subject consists of all available faculty of nursing teaching staff (118) Who are working at the Faculty of Nursing- Minia University distributed in different scientific academic departments. Tools of data collection: The study uses two tools. I) Career Development Questionnaire. II) Teaching staff Organizational commitment questionnaire. Result: Most of the teaching staff have high level of career development, less than two third of the teaching staff have moderate organizational commitment and slightly less than one third of them had high level organizational commitment. Conclusion: There was high statistically significant positive correlation between total career development and total organizational commitment among the teaching staff. The study recommends providing educational opportunities for teaching staff to help them to develop self-confidence and positive self-image through enhancing their professional knowledge and skills.