|
KMID : 0614820090150030434
|
|
Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2009 Volume.15 No. 3 p.434 ~ p.443
|
|
|
Effect of Nurses’ Perception of Reward and Organizational Commitment on Their Turnover Intention
|
|
Lee Mi-Aie
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose: This study was performed to measure nurses’ perception of reward, organizational commitment, turnover intention, and to examine the effect of the first two variables on turnover intention.
Methods: This study was cross-sectional survey. Data were collected from 400 nurses working at 8 general hospitals in 6 cities from May 28 to July 18, 2008.
Result: Nurses perceived that reward was ’important’, and organizational commitment and turnover intention were ’middle’. Being under 30 years old the unmarried staff nurses’ organizational commitment was significantly low in statistics and their turnover intention was high. The only financial reward had a positive relationship with turnover intention, and organizational commitment had a negative relationship. The influence variables on turnover intention were affective commitment, period of expected work, financial reward, age, normative commitment, and the explanation power of them was 57.2%.
Conclusion: It is concluded that the manager working at a small-middle sized general hospitals in Korean provinces should develop and apply the strategies that can improve nurses’ organizational commitment. And they also have to make their organizational reward system keep appropriately.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Reward, Organizational commitment, Turnover
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
 
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
 
|
|