Perception of Management by Objectives and Organizational Effectiveness among Clinical Nurses

간호사의 목표관리(MBO)에 대한 인식과 간호조직의 유효성

Purpose: It is a descriptive study to analyze correlation between the perception of management by objectives(MBO) and organizational effectiveness among clinical nurses. Methods: The subjects were 315 nurses at two hospitals (A and B) of C university, who have had more than 3.5 years of nursing experience. The survey instrument included two major concepts, perception of MBO (29 items) and organizational effectiveness, which has three sub-concepts, job satisfaction (18 items), organizational commitment (12 items), and motivation (20 items). The data analyses included t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and Stepwise multiple regression. Result: The mean score of the perception of MBO was 3.13 out of 5. In organizational effectiveness, job satisfaction was 3.09, organizational commitment 3.25, and motivation 3.38. The perception of MBO had significantly positive correlation with job satisfaction(r=.71), organizational commitment(r=.65) and motivation (r=.61). The perception of MBO explained 50.4%, 42.4%, and 37.1% for job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and motivation respectively. Conclusions: The results show that the MBO affected the organizational effectiveness, and the MBO serves as a useful system to improve the organizational effectiveness in a nursing department.