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KMID : 1138720190450020083
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Korean Public Health Research
2019 Volume.45 No. 2 p.83 ~ p.93
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Factors Associated with Organizational Commitment Among Korean Public Medical Centers Employees
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Lee Eun-Whan
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Abstract
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Objective : According to recent studies, public medical centers in Korea faced organizational management problems, and one of the major factors in organizational management is the organizational commitment of employees. This study aims to identify factors associated with organizational commitment among employees of public medical centers.
Methods : In this study, a survey was conducted to measure the organizational commitment of employees at 33 local public medical centers in Korea. A structured self-administered questionnaire based on the internet was sent to all the employees and a total of 1,423 respondents participated(response rate: about 22.2%). The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire(OQC), which is the most widely used to measure organizational commitment in previous studies, was used. The research model consisted of the socio-demographic, job-related, and socio-psychological characteristics of the subjects and analyzed by hierarchical multiple regression analysis.
Results : The results showed that factors affecting the organizational commitment of the employees in the public medical centers were higher age, and other occupations than nursing staffs. The organizational commitment of middle-career employees was significantly low. In the case of psychosocial factors, job stress negatively influenced organizational commitment. The higher the job satisfaction, the higher the organizational commitment level.
Conclusions : This is the first study in Korea to analyze the influencing factors of organizational commitment including various occupations of 33 public medical centers nationwide. Especially, the results of this study identified that the factors influencing on organizational commitment of public medical centers employees were different from that of private hospitals. These results can be used as an important information for management of public medical centers.
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KEYWORD
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Organizational commitment, Public medical center
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