| Summary: | 碩士 === 長庚大學 === 管理學院碩士學位學程在職專班醫務管理組 === 100 === Nurses are the largest portion of medical staffs who also constitutes the forefront services of care. Nursing manpower costs account for 30-40% of the total hospital costs, suggesting nursing plays important role. Over the years, the staff mobility and the plight of the nursing workforce has plagued most managers. Employing human resources management principles such as job rotations to motivate nurses become important method for nursing retention and allocation flexibility. It is therefore important to understand whether job rotations improve job satisfaction and organizational commitment of nursing staffs.
This study is a cross-sectional survey for nurses in a medical center in northern Taiwan. Stratified sampling was applied to recruit nurses by their rankings. This study aims to investigate factors related to organizational commitment, included motivation potential score (MPS), job satisfaction, and job rotation experience. Questionnaires used in this study consisted of basic personal data, the job satisfaction scale, the job characteristics scale, and the organizational commitment scale. The results suggested that nurses with job rotation experience rated significantly higher in most of the variables than those without such experiences. In addition, organizational commitment positively and significantly correlated with other variables.
The results have implications for improving retention and work motivation of clinical nursing staffs. The suggestions for nursing managers concerning job rotation are discussed.
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