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KMID : 0614820110170010088
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2011 Volume.17 No. 1 p.88 ~ p.95
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Influence of Nursing Organizational Culture on Empowerment as Perceived by New Nurses
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Seo Yang-Yoeb
Ju Hyeon-Ok
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Abstract
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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 () out of a possible 5 points followed by hierarch-oriented culture, innovation-oriented culture and task-oriented culture with , and , respectively. The respondents’ level of perceived empowerment was . 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.
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KEYWORD
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Nursing, Organizational culture, Empowerment
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