Factors Affecting the Organizational Commitment of Military Physicians.

Abstract

This study examines the 1978 DOD Survey of Officers and Enlisted Personnel for the determinants of organizational commitment for military physicians. The physicians studied were not in the initial period of obligation. Organizational commitment is measured in terms of the physician's intended years of service beyond his obligated service, XSRV. Different variables appear to be important in explaining the organizational commitment of physicians depending on whether or not they are serving in their initial period of obligation. The Uniformed Services Health Professsionals Special Pay Act of 1980 substantially amended the special pay entitlements of physicians in the armed forces. The study supports the argument for the amendments. Frequency analysis, multivariate regression, and discriminant analysis are utilized to examine potential factors involved in making career decisions. The civilian versus military job comparisons variables are found to be important factors affecting military physicians career decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146563

Entities

People

  • J. T. Menifee

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Discriminant Analysis
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Factor Analysis
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Physicians
  • Regression Analysis
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Trauma or Military Medicine