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A Study of Work Value and Turnover Intention of linical Nurses at Tainan Regional Hospitals

SUMMARY
The purpose of this study is to discuss the clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention at Tainan regional hospitals; compare the difference of clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention by the variation of personal character and the variation of organization; and research for the interaction of clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention.
The total 301 clinical nurses from three different hospitals are surveyed by the self-made questionnaire of clinical nurse's work value and turnover intention. The total 263 useful questionnaires are collected and analyzed by the statistical techniques including mean, proportion, correlation analysis, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis etc. The finding from this study provides the following information:
1.In the category of work value, the safe working environment and job pay have the highest score and the self-learning has the lowest score. In the category of job satisfaction, the management satisfaction is the best and the pay satisfaction is the worst. The recognition and devotion commitments are more important than the retention commitment in the category of organizational commitment. The average score for turnover intention is 15.26 (full marks is 25).
2.The substantial discrepancy in clinical nurse's work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention exists in the result of the variation of organization.
3.The variation of personal character leads to the significant discrepancy in work value, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention.
4.The job satisfaction results from the work value at government contracted-hospital. The organizational commitment results from the job satisfaction at all three hospitals. The turnover intention is under the influence of organizational commitment at city hospital, under the influence of job satisfaction and organizational commitment at Christian hospital and under the influence of work value and organizational commitment at government contracted-hospital.
The conclusion from this study provides the hospital management with the concept how to limit the turnover intention in order to maintain the top competitive ability in medical business and provide the best service quality for the clients.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0128102-163454
Date28 January 2002
CreatorsCHIANG, YU-HSUEH
Contributorsnone, none, none
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0128102-163454
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