The descriptive study was designed to find out the relation on the nurses' perceptions and the differences between those working in small hospitals settings those in general hospital, about job-related empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational ...
The descriptive study was designed to find out the relation on the nurses' perceptions and the differences between those working in small hospitals settings those in general hospital, about job-related empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
The study subjects included 104 nurses, working in general hospital and 152 nurses, working in small hospitals in Daejeon. The collected structured-questionnaires were completed in 2 weeks from August 25 to September 08, 2004.
The findings are as follows ;
1. In the small hospital, general characteristics has shown significant differences in empowerment : age, marital state, education, total clinical experience, job tenure, working department, duty shift.
In the general hospital, general characteristics has shown significant differences in empowerment : age, total clinical experience, job tenure(p < 0.05).
2. General characteristics have shown significant differences in empowerment : age, marital state, total clinical experience, job tenure, duty shift(p < 0.05).
3. General characteristics have shown significant differences in job satisfaction : duty shift, work load except nursing(p < 0.05).
4. General characteristics have shown significant differences in organizational commitment : age, marital state, frequency of job change, duty shift, reasons for choosing the job, work load except nursing(p < 0.05).
5. The mean score of empowerment, for those employed in small hospitals, ranging from 12 to 84 were 55.4,/ of job satisfaction which the score ranged from 20 to 100 scored 59.9,/ of organizational commitment, which the score ranged from 15 to 75 were 45.6,/ of self-efficacy, which the score ranged from 4 to 16 were 12.5.
The mean score of empowerment of those the employed at general hospital were 53.8,/ of job satisfaction were 56.1,/ of organizational commitment were 45.6,/ and of self efficacy were 12.2.
6. The analysis result on the correlation and coefficient between empowerment and job satisfaction has shown correlations(r=.463,), between empowerment and organizational commitment it has shown correlation(r=.300), job satisfaction and organizational commitment it has shown correlation(r=.675).
The results regarding nurses' perception on empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment resulted in co-relations. The result shows that it is important for nurses to empower themselves for increasing job satisfaction and organizational commitment.