As stressed out by several authors, the primary force for the development and progress of any profession is an organised body. However, this is not self-evident, it also demands involvement and activity of its members. The main goal of the Master’s thesis is to identify the factors that have an important influence on the well-being and behaviour on members of professional organisations. For this purpose, we conduct a quantitative research on the case of the Medical Chamber of Slovenia, which today connects more than 11 thousand members. The analysis included two main concepts: identification with the professional organisation and satisfaction with the membership. Based on social identification theory, we added the following variables to the research: professional identification, perceived external prestige and satisfaction with the services. We found that out of all variables, identification with the Chamber has the greatest influence on the satisfaction with the membership. Satisfaction with the services, offered by the Chamber to its members, has a medium influence of the satisfaction, while the direct influence of the perceived external prestige is almost negligible. On the other hand, particularly the perceived external prestige has the greatest influence on the identification with the Chamber. Such a research is, besides the current state of health care and medicine, also important, because it studies the influence and importance of the variety of identities, concerned with work, and puts the set concepts in the context of professional organisations, who are often overlooked in Slovenian literature.
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