The objective of this study is to positively compare & analyze the effects of empowerment within public and private organizations on organizational commitment, centered on the moderating effects of organizational culture.
Due to this, the empowermen...
The objective of this study is to positively compare & analyze the effects of empowerment within public and private organizations on organizational commitment, centered on the moderating effects of organizational culture.
Due to this, the empowerment factor was regarded as an independent variable while organizational commitment was a dependent variable, after which a model for this study was established under the consideration that organizational culture and organization type may have moderating effects on the relation between the two variables.
In this study, the author used literature reviews and surveys, and the method of study was based on quantitative research by the questionnaire method. The summary of this study is as follows:
Firstly, the comparison and analysis of public and private organizations showed that there was a difference in the degrees of effects of the sub-factors of empowerment on organizational commitment. Regarding hypothesis I among the sub-variables of empowerment, meaning in the rank of effects was highest both in public and private organizations but higher in private organizations. As the next best, impact was high in public organizations and self-determination was high in private ones. For private organizations, impact and role performing ability failed to show statistically significant results.
Secondly, in regression analysis, empowerment both in public and private organizations showed positive effects on organizational commitment, indicating a significant relation.
Thirdly, in the relation between empowerment and control variables, significant positive correlations were shown in age, period of continuous service, and school career (in that order) in public organizations. Also, gender showed significant negative correlation. As for private organizations, age, school career, and period of continuous service showed significant positive correlations while the correlation of gender and empowerment failed to show significance.
Fourthly, in organizational culture and organization type, moderating effects were not analyzed to be significant in the relation between empowerment and organizational commitment, and clan culture was partially shown to be effective on organizational commitment.
Conclusively, it is safe to say that in public and private organizations, organizational commitment is able to be improved when empowerment is performed for the members of organizations regardless of organizational culture and organization types. The results of this study are expected to provide the present status of public and private organizations and to serve as useful data for manpower development or efficient organization management of the government or businesses in the future.