• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.196-206
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• 2013

Purpose: This descriptive correlation study was done to identify the hardiness, coping behavior, and organizational commitment of general hospital employees and show how these variables affect increases in role performance and problem solving ability to have a positive influence on organizational harmony. Methods: A quantitative, descriptive research design was used with a sample of 368 employees working in general hospitals in M and C cities. A survey was used to collect the data. Results: The score for perception of hardiness of general hospital employees was 2.85, and coping behavior was 2.40, both out of a possible 4 points, and organizational commitment, 3.03 out of a possible 5 points. There were statistically significant positive correlations between hardiness and coping behavior (r=.33, p<.001), also between hardiness and organizational commitment (r=.51, p<.001), and also between coping behavior and organizational commitment (r=.22, p<.001). Conclusion: The results of the study indicate that hardiness, coping behavior, and organizational commitment in general hospital employees have positive correlations, and thus hospital administrators should explore ways of increase individual employee hardiness and coping behavior, and make efforts to harmonize their organizations by enhancing organizational commitment.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.282-291
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify clusters of nursing competency, and investigate the influence of reflective thinking, team learning climate, and learning organization building according to nursing competency clusters. Methods: Participants were 244 clinical nurses who worked in 4 general hospitals in Gwangju Metropolitan City. Data were collected by self-report questionnaires during June and July, 2011. Nursing competency, levels of reflection hierarchy, team learning climate, and learning organization building were measured. Data were analyzed using frequencies, means, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients, and K-means cluster analysis with SPSS/WIN 20.0 version. Results: Nursing competency correlated positively with intensive reflection, reflection, team learning climate, and learning organization building (p<.001). There were three clusters of nursing competency in a clinical ladder, which were derived from cluster analysis, grouped as high, middle, and low competency. Intensive reflection, reflection, team learning climate, and learning organization building showed significant differences according to grouping of nursing competency. Conclusion: The results indicate that developing intensive reflection, reflection, team learning climate, and learning organization building would be useful strategies for enhancement of nursing competency.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.373-383
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• 2007

Purpose: This descriptive study was designed to find out the relation between nurses' perceptions of leadership and organizational effectiveness. Method: The data was collected from nurses in 451, a tertiary hospital located in B city by means of structured questionnaires. The data was analysed by t-test. ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The average age of the subjects was 29.1. Regarding the marital status, 68.1% were single. Regarding the nursing unit, 42.6% were working for the general surgical wards. The total period of clinical career was on average 73.7 months. Regarding the period in current ward, 51.0% were 1-less than 3 years. There was a positive correlation with transformational leadership, transactional leadership, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment, whereas the turnover intention had a negative correlation with transformational leadership and transactional leadership. Conclusion: The nurses' different perceptions of transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and organizational effectiveness have strong correlative relationships with each other. This finding suggests the importance of the head nurse's leadership in increasing organizational effectiveness.

• Health Policy and Management
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.244-259
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• 2013

This study investigates the moderation effect that organizational trust had on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and organizational commitment, intention to turnover, organizational citizenship behavior by analyzing the empirical data of 716 personnels collected from university hospital in Korea. We hypothesized that perceptions of organizational politics would tended to negatively related to a high level of organizational commitment and intention to turnover, organizational citizenship behaviors, and that organizational trust would moderate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and outcomes. These results suggest that organizational politics of perceptions had negative impacts on organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors, while perceptions of organizational politics had positive impact on intention to turnover. Furthermore, the level of organizational trust moderated the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and outcomes. Based on these findings, implications of the research findings are discussed, and recommendation for future research and practice are provided.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.315-327
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• 2003

Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore the influence of empowerment on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Method: The study has been conducted on 375 nurses working 6 general or university hospitals in Seoul, Korea. The data collected from April 1st to 30th, of the same month of the year 2003. For the survey tools are Chandler's CWEQ, Salvitts et al.'s(1978) Job satisfaction and Mowday et al's(1979) organizational commitment. The date analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA, Scheffe test and multiple regression by SPSS win 10.0 program. Result: The mean of empowerment was 2.807 job satisfaction was 2.735 and organizational commitment was 4.095. The correlation between empowerment and job satisfaction was r=0.575(p=.000) empowerment and organizational commitment was r=0.533(p=.000) organizational commitment and job satisfaction was r=0.663 (p=.000). The influence of the empowerment on the job satisfaction was 33.0% and in case on the organizational commitment 28.4%. Conclusion: This study revealed that nurses empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were not so high, therefore each nursing organization has to concern about these points for acheiveing nursing organization's purposes.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.88-95
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• 2011

Purpose: This study was done to identify the effect of nursing organizational culture on empowerment as perceived by new clinical nurses. Method: For the objective a sample of 175 new nurses from secondary/tertiary hospitals having not less than 250 beds located in B city was selected to complete a questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, One-way ANOVA, Scheffe's test, Pearson correlation coefficients and simultaneous multiple regression with the SPSS 14.0 software program. Results: As for nursing organizational culture as perceived by the respondent, relation-oriented culture had the highest average score ($3.60{\pm}.63$) out of a possible 5 points followed by hierarch-oriented culture, innovation-oriented culture and task-oriented culture with $3.45{\pm}.30$, $3.19{\pm}.53$ and $3.05{\pm}.46$, respectively. The respondents' level of perceived empowerment was $3.06{\pm}.41$. The factors influencing empowerment according to nursing organizational culture were innovation-oriented and relation-oriented culture in that order. These 2 variables were statistically significant predictors and explained 48.6% of the variance in empowerment. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that emphasis should be given to nursing organizational culture strengthened by innovationoriented and relation-oriented culture, rather than task-oriented and hierarch-oriented culture, in order to foster harmonious empowerment among nurses at all levels.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.119-128
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• 2016

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among work environment of nursing, nursing organizational culture, demands at work and the emotional labor in clinical nurses. Methods: A convenience sample of 241 registered nurses was obtained from two hospitals. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire during December, 2014. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlations and multiple regression with SPSS/WIN 21.0. Results: The mean score for emotional labor was $3.36{\pm}0.48$, for work environment of nursing, $2.44{\pm}0.36$, and for innovational-orientation, $2.95{\pm}0.56$: Relation-orientation, $3.34{\pm}0.62$, Task-orientation, $2.95{\pm}0.53$, and hierarchy-orientation, $3.41{\pm}0.49$, The score for quantitative demands was $3.02{\pm}0.56$, and for work pace, $3.76{\pm}0.76$. In multivariate analysis, factors related to emotional labor were work environment of nursing, innovational-orientation and work pace. Conclusion: Findings from this study indicate the need to evaluate and improve the work environment for nurses to decrease emotional labor.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.552-560
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was performed to identify the mediating effect of empowerment in the relationship between head nurses' servant leadership and organizational commitment among clinical nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional survey design was used. A convenience sample of 249 nurses was recruited from three hospitals located in J province, South Korea. Data were collected by self-report questionnaires, including general characteristics, servant leadership, empowerment, and organizational commitment. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficients, independent t-test, One-way ANOVA, and linear regression using the SPSS 22.0 program. Results: Head nurses' servant leadership perceived by clinical nurses significantly influenced their organization commitment. Empowerment partly mediated the effect of servant leadership on organizational commitment. Conclusion: The findings suggest the importance of improving nurse managers' servant leadership and empowering nurses to increase their organizational commitment.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.530-541
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• 2015

Purpose: This study was designed to construct a structural equation model and identify the effects and relationships of self-efficacy, career plateau, job embeddedness, organizational commitment and intent to turnover for nurses. Also, an attempt was made to derive a hypothetical model from these factors and to verify whether the model has validity as a means of explaining and anticipating turnover intention of nurses. Methods: Data were collected from six randomly selected hospitals: a university hospital located in J city, Kyungnam and five general hospitals located in two cities (cities B and C), each having 400 to 720 beds. Also, 318 nurses were surveyed. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 program. Results: Job embeddedness and organizational commitment were identified as the most likely paths to turn over intention. Also, organizational commitment had the highest direct effect on turnover intention followed by job embeddedness and then self-efficacy, but career plateau had an indirectly effected turnover intention. Conclusion: As turnover intention was found to be greatly affected by organizational commitment and job embeddedness, methods to improve organizational commitment and job embeddedness should be actively developed to reduce turnover intention among nurses.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.148-157
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• 2016

Purpose: This study was designed to assess the level of super-leadership and self-leadership, identify correlations among variables and identify the factors influencing organizational commitment of clinical nurses. Methods: Participants were 217 nurses working in four hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one way ANOVA, Scheffe. test, Pearson Correlation, and Multiple Regression. Results: The most influential factor for organizational commitment was super-leadership (${\beta}=.28$, p<.001), followed by education ${\beta}=.16$, p=.007), the number of unit nurses (${\beta}=.18$, p=.003), self-leadership (${\beta}=.17$, p=.008), and the number of patients being under 10 (${\beta}=.12$, p=.046). These factors accounted for 23% of the variance in organizational commitment (F=13.46, p<.001). Conclusion: The results of this study suggest a need for strategies to improve organizational commitment of nurses by enhancing nurse' self-leadership through nursing managers' super-leadership.