Relationships of Nurses' Professional Commitment with other Commitment Forms: Organizational Commitment, Work Commitment and Family Commitment

Year 2011, Volume: 18 Issue: 1, 28 - 40, 01.03.2011

Doç. Dr. Serap Benligiray Yard. Doç. Dr. Harun Sönmez

Abstract

The commitment forms of individuals regarding their private and work lives have been subject to various researches in an independent or interactive way for a long time. In this study, relations have been tested for defining the relationship between the nurses' professional commitment and organizational, work and family commitment. With this objective, the study was conducted with the nurses employed in 7 state hospitals with 500 or over bed capacity and 3 university hospitals under the body of Ankara Ministry of Health through questionnaires. In the study, 355 nurses were chosen random via proportional distribution method in stratified sampling. The correlation analysis was performed on data which were obtained from the survey method. As a result of analysis, relation between professional commitment and affective commitment was found out statistically insignificant. There is a significant positive weak relation between nurses' professional commitment and their continuance commitment to the organization they work, their normative commitment, their work commitment and their family commitment.

Keywords

Nursing, professional commitment, organizational commitment, work commitment, family commitment

Hemşirelerin Mesleki Bağlılıkları ile Diğer Bağlılık Formları Arasındaki İlişki: Örgüte Bağlılık, İşe Bağlılık ve Aileye Bağlılık

Abstract

Uzun yıllardan bu yana bireylerin özel ve iş yaşamlarına ilişkin bağlılık formları ya birbirinden bağımsız ya da birbirleriyle etkileşimli olarak çeşitli araştırmalara konu olmuştur. Bu çalışmada daha önceden yapılan araştırmalar göz önüne alınarak hemşirelerin mesleki bağlılıkları ile örgüte, işe ve aileye bağlılıkları arasındaki ilişki test edilmiştir. Bu amaçla, Ankara'da Sağlık Bakanlığına bağlı 500 ve üzeri yataklı 7 devlet hastanesi ile 3 üniversite hastanesinde çalışan hemşirelerle bir anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Çalışma evreni içinden rastgele 355 hemşire, tabakalı örneklemede orantılı dağıtım yöntemi kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. Anket yöntemiyle elde edilen veri üzerinde korelasyon analizi yapılmıştır. Analiz sonucunda mesleğe bağlılık ile örgüte duygusal bağlılık arasındaki ilişkinin istatistiksel olarak anlamlı olmadığı görülmüştür. Mesleğe bağlılık ile örgüte devamlılık bağlılığı ve normatif bağlılık, işe bağlılık ve aileye bağlılık arasında anlamlı, pozitif yönlü, zayıf bir ilişki bulunmaktadır.

Keywords

Hemşirelik, mesleğe bağlılık, örgüte bağlılık, işe bağlılık, aileye bağlılık

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