Factors affecting organizational commitment of nursing instructors in Central College Network 2

Abstract

The purposes of this descriptive research were; (1) to study factors affecting organizational commitment of nursing instructors at Central College Network  2, including the personal factor (work experiences), the job factor (job characteristics); (2) to examine organizational commitment of nursing instructors, and (3) to explore the influences of the personal factor and the job factor to organizational commitment of these nursing instructors. The sample comprised 138 nursing instructors, who worked at  Central College Network 2 at least 1 year. They were selected by simple random sampling technique.

Data were collected by questionnaires including 4 parts: (1) personal data, (2) work experiences (3) job characteristics and (4) organizational commitment.  The Cronbach’s alpha coefficients of the second to

the forth parts were 0.894, 0.717 and 0.877 respectively.  Data were analyzed for frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and multiple regression analysis.  The results were as follows: (1) Nursing instructors rated their work experiences and job characteristics and organizational commitment at the high level. (2) work experiences and job characteristics have influenced organizational commitment of nursing instructors. These predictors accounted for 26.30 % (R² = 0.263, p < .01).