A Study on the Relationship between Career Commitment and Organization commitment;Focusing on Moderating Effect of Individual Career-related Characteristics

간호사의 경력몰입과 조직몰입의 관계에 관한 연구;경력관련특성의 조절효과를 중심으로

This study investigated the relationship between nurses' Career Commitment and Organizational Commitment, and the moderating effect of individual career-related characteristics (age, tenure, position, number of department change, number of hospital change) on the relationship between career commitment and organizational commitment. The sample for this study consisted of 594 nurses from 8 large Korean hospitals. And the factor analysis, Cronbach's alpha, multiple regression analysis and two-way ANOVA were used for the statistical methods. Research was found that (1) career commitment and the two dimensions of organizational commitment(affective and transactional) were validated as distinct concepts for Korean nurses. (2) career commitment showed positive influence on the two dimension of organizational commitment, (3) all individual career-related characteristics did not moderated the effect of career commitment on affective commitment, but (4) number of career department change and of hospital change among career-related characteristics moderated the effect of career commitment on transactional commitment. Theoretical and practical implication of these result were discussed in the conclusion.