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Background and Aim: Staff satisfaction is one of the basic and important indicators for assessment of contract management. The aim of this study was to survey relationship between contract management and staff satisfaction in hospitals affiliated to the Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2011.

Materials and Methods: This research was a cross-sectional and descriptive study. Six hospitals which were deployed a contract management system in recent years were chosen. A questionnaire with Likert scale was designed to measure the satisfaction.
One hundered and twenty three employees filled the questionnaire. The data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics and paired t test.

Results: The average staff satisfaction score before implementing contract management system was 3/04(out of 5) and after implementation was 2/86. The correlation of satisfaction among workers before and after the out sourcing was significant(P<0/005). It was clear that satisfaction was reduced after the transfer.

Conclusion: The average staff satisfaction score before implementing contract management system was 3/04(out of 5) and after implementation was 2/86. The correlation of satisfaction among workers before and after the out sourcing was significant(P<0/005). It was clear that satisfaction was reduced after the transfer.

Background and Aim: Analysis of functions enables organizations to identify their special capabilities and weak points accurately and thus they can enhance capabilities and reduce impacts of threats and obstacles through such analysis. The main goal of this work is investigation of status of Weisbord Model's variables (6 variables) as functional dimensions of management in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive - analytical study. The study population consisted of 384 staffs from hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Standardized questionnaire for organization recognition was used for data collection. Descriptive statistics (frequency distribution, frequency percentage) and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and significance level) were used for statistical analysis and data analysis was run using SPSS software.

Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference (p=0.0001) in hospitals in terms of the internal situation. Internal situation of all hospitals in the study was evaluated as favorable condition by obtaining 94.5 score out of 125. Among the hospitals, Hashemi-Nejad Hospital with highest score (113) showed the better condition and Rasoul Hospital had the lowest score (87) and lower condition as compared to other hospitals.

Conclusion: Necessity of systematic perspective in designing and development of fair compensation mechanism with presence of representatives of employees is an action which can considerably influence improvement of current situation in the hospitals and facilitates achieving predetermined goals of the organization

 Background and Aim: Since employees satisfaction have important effects on achieving the goals of organizations and also organizational justice is a key factor in employees satisfaction, The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

 Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive and cross-sectional analysis. The study sample was composed of 312 employees from selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences by cluster Stratified Random sampling. Data collected by using two questionnaires: Moorman& Niehoff Organizational Justice and Yaghoobi Organizational Citizenship Bahavior. The questionnaires reliability was supported and based on Cronbach s Alfa (OJ=94%, OCB=93%) and questionnaire validity was confirmed by specialist point of view. Data was analyzed by SPSS 18 software.

 Results: The result of analysis revealed that Hasheminejad hospital had the highest score of organizational citizenship behavior in all dimensions except for altruismin dimension. The score in each of the dimensions for organizational justice except for interactional justice in Hasheminejad hospital were the highest There was significant relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior in the following dimensions: Altruism, Conscientiousness, Courtesy, Sportsmanship (p=0/0001). 

 Conclusion: As shown, there was a relationship between organizational justice and all aspect of organizational citizenship behavior in selected hospitals and also there was a positive relationship between involving staffs in organizationl activities with facilitating achievement of organizational goals and improvement of hospital performance, Therefore, strategies should be adopted in line with organizational justice to increase citizenship behavior.