Correlation between Job Rotation and Visiting Number in Environmental Health Employees

Aims Job rotation is considered as one of the human resource development methods. Thisstudy was carried out to investigate the correlation between job rotation and visiting numberof Environmental Health employees.Materials & Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study was done on environmentalhealth employees in three health centers of North, North West and East of Tehran in 2011.42 persons were selected using stratified sampling method. Data collected using theinformation collection form and using employee’s monthly detailed statistics to evaluatetheir performance. Data were analyzed by SPSS 17 software using Mann-Whitney test.Findings The mean of job rotation frequencies was 5.5±5.0 (least 1 to the most 20 times).There was not a significant correlation (p>0.496) between the visiting frequency of personswho had job rotation recently (76.14±15.46%) and persons who had not job rotationrecently (73.53±16.34%). There was no significant correlation between the visiting numberfrequencies according to the number of rotations during work in four 1-5 (77.36±16.30%),6-10 (74.02±13.20%), 11-15 (67.17±22.43%) and 16-20 rotations (66.37±17.09%) groups(p=0.31).Conclusion Environmental health employees’ performance is independent from their jobrotation condition, and job rotation does not improve employees’ visiting number.

Correlation between Job Rotation and Visiting Number in Environmental Health Employees Keywords:

Environmental health , Job Satisfaction , Organization & Administration , Humans