STUDYING JOB INVOLVEMENT AND ITS RELATION WITH OTHER VARIABLES AMONG NON-FACULTY STAFF OF IRANIAN UNIVERSITIES OF MEDICAL SCIENCES: A REVIEW

Introduction: Considering the effective role of job involvement in increasing organizational effectiveness, this research has been done to investigate job involvement and its relation with other variables among non-faculty staff of Iranian universities of medical sciences. Materials and Methods: This has been done as a simple overview in 2018. Research data was collected through the search of published articles in Internet sources and valid scientific databases, with searching 3 words "job involvement, staff and Iran", without linguistic and temporal limitation. Results: With investigating 9 conducted researches in health educational centers affiliated with the Ministry of Health of Iran, this research has come to the conclusion that job involvement has direct and positive relationship with such variables as "Strategic Alignment","Servant Leadership","Transformational Leadership","Demographic Characteristics", "Organizational Culture", "Strategic Alignmen and Valuable Work", "Role of Professional Ethics" and "Emotional Intelligence". Discussion and Conclusion: job involvement will occur when in an organization the staff act with more than their job expectations and communicate mentally, emotionally and physically with their work. Job involvement will have consequences such as increasing the positive attitude of the work environment, improving mental health of the employees, and promoting their performance and behavior in the organization. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen it and other related variables in organizations. Keywords: Job involvement, Iranian University of Medical Sciences.