Introduction:

Job satisfaction and organizational climate are essential variables in the management of organizations. Its lack contributes to the appearance of adverse effects such as absenteeism, professional rotation and appearance of dysfunctions or diseases, which impacts the organization, health personnel and users.

Objective:

To determine if there is a relationship between job satisfaction and the organizational climate perceived by primary health care officials of a commune in Chile.

Materials and Methods:

Analytical cross-sectional study in 110 health staff belonging to two Family Health Centers of a commune in Chile. Scales were applied to measure job satisfaction and organizational climate of Chiang et al. (2010). SPSS version 22 was used for the bivariate analysis of the data and Spearman's Rho correlation coefficient was applied.

Results:

Both health centers presented an average level of job satisfaction (3.32 ± 0.93) and organizational climate (3.45 ± 0.83) out of a maximum of 5. The dimension with the lowest general average of job satisfaction was satisfied by the physical environment (2.80 ± 0.93) and for organizational climate it was recognition (3.12 ± 0.77). Regarding the highest general average, he was satisfied with the fact that he performed his work (3.56 ± 0.87) and confidence (3.66 ± 0.88) respectively. The correlation between the global scores of both scales was statistically significant 0.636 (p≤0.001).

Conclusions:

The perception of a high organizational climate is related to a higher level of job satisfaction in the health staff studied.

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