A study on the influence of empowerment on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of clinical nurses

임상간호사의 임파워먼트가 직무만족과 조직몰입에 미치는 영향

Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore the influence of empowerment on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Method: The study has been conducted on 375 nurses working 6 general or university hospitals in Seoul, Korea. The data collected from April 1st to 30th, of the same month of the year 2003. For the survey tools are Chandler's CWEQ, Salvitts et al.'s(1978) Job satisfaction and Mowday et al's(1979) organizational commitment. The date analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA, Scheffe test and multiple regression by SPSS win 10.0 program. Result: The mean of empowerment was 2.807 job satisfaction was 2.735 and organizational commitment was 4.095. The correlation between empowerment and job satisfaction was r=0.575(p=.000) empowerment and organizational commitment was r=0.533(p=.000) organizational commitment and job satisfaction was r=0.663 (p=.000). The influence of the empowerment on the job satisfaction was 33.0% and in case on the organizational commitment 28.4%. Conclusion: This study revealed that nurses empowerment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment were not so high, therefore each nursing organization has to concern about these points for acheiveing nursing organization's purposes.