The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between public health nurses decentralization, participation of decision-making and organizational commitment and to provide basic data for the improvement of public health nurses organizational effectiveness.
Data were collected from Aug. 1 to Aug. 30, 1998 collection rate-96~~) through questionnaires by 163 public health nurses working in Taejon and Chungnam.
The insti-urnents were used Van de Ven and Ferry~s sob authority scale. Hage and Aiken~s Hierarchy of Authority scale, Participation of Decision-making kale. and \lowday~s Organizational Commitment questionnaires. Collected data were analyzed by SPSS PC+.
The results were as follows
1. There were significant differences of age(P(.05), career, spending time for major stud}-. and experience who called expert(P(.O1) to decentralization.
2. There were significant differences of career (P(.05), educational level, and spending time foi major study(P(.0011 to participation of decision-making.
3. There were significant differences of career. spending time for major study. self-evaluation to specialt,y(P(.O1) and experience who called expert (P(.001) to organizational commitment.
4. 1) A significant correlation was found between decentralization and self-evaluation to specialt~~ (P(.05) age, career, spending time for maJor study, and experience who called expert(P(.011.
2) A significant correlation was found between participation of decision-making and self-eva.´-uation to specialty(P(.05), age. career. spending time for major study. experience to call expert. and decentralization(P(.O1).
3) A significant correlation was found between organisational commitment and age(P(.05), career. spending time for major study. self-oval-cation to specialty, experience who called expert. de-centralization. and participation of decision-making (P(.01).
5. Decentralization was the best predictor of or ganizational commitment(17%). also experience who called expert. self evaluation to specialty es-. plained the organizational commitment.
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