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KMID : 0614820100160020172
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
2010 Volume.16 No. 2 p.172 ~ p.179
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Canonical Correlation between Organizational Culture and Informatics Competency
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Kim Myoung-Soo
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Abstract
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Purpose:The purpose of this study was to examine the canonical correlation between organizational culture and nurses’ informatics competency.
Methods:Participants in this study were 354 nurses from three hospitals and one university. The scales of organizational culture, informatics competency for nurses were used. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, canonical correlation were used for data analysis.
Results:The dominant organizational culture was hierarch-oriented culture. Nursing informatics competency of the participants was relatively low with a mean score 3.04. Organizational culture was related to informatics competency with 2 significant canonical variables. The first variate showed the higher four subcategories of organizational culture showed the better nursing informatics. The second variate indicated that nurses felt higher innovation-related and lower hierarch-related culture showed higher medical informatics-related software usage and computer related information management, lower perception of informatics and information search using internet.
Conclusions:Organization culture has a major of impact on the success of information system use. Therefore, the continuous strategy for higher innovation-related organizational culture such as management support should be needed.
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KEYWORD
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Organizational culture, Informatics, Professional competence
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