In today, clients greatly have expectations of service quality as a means to increase their awareness of rights and knowledge of health. Nursing service quality plays an important role of organizational effectiveness. Voluntary and active organizatio...
In today, clients greatly have expectations of service quality as a means to increase their awareness of rights and knowledge of health. Nursing service quality plays an important role of organizational effectiveness. Voluntary and active organizational citizenship behaviors of nurses are therefore needed in clinical practice.
The purpose of this study was to examine the causal relationship among organizational citizenship behavior, transformational Leadership, Organizational Justice, Job Satisfaction, and Organizational Commitment.
The subjects consisted of 310 registered nurses who had over six- month-experience in the same department at university hospitals in Seoul and Kyunggido. Survey data were collected from February 9 to February 27, 2009. The data were analyzed by discrpitive statistics, Cronbach's α using SPSS WIN 15.0 program and confirmatory factors, the development of Measurement Model and Structural Model were analyzed by using AMOS 16.0 program.
The result of structural model accepted construct reliability, convergent validity and discriminent validity. Fit measures of the structural model evaluated the data (χ2/df=143.810/67, p=.000, CMIN/df=2.146, RMSEA=.061, RMR=.019, GFI=.938, AGFI=.903, NFI=.922, CFI=.956)
The squared multiple correlations(R2) indicated that modified model explains 47.1% for organizational justice, 34.7% job satisfaction, 76.5% organizational commitment, and 77.2% organizational citizenship behavior of the variance. Five of the ten hypotheses were statistically supportive.
Detailed results were as follows;
1) Transformational leadership had a strongly direct effect on organizational justice.
2) Transformational leadership had an indirect effect on job satisfaction and organizational justice had a direct effect on job satisfaction.
3) Transformational leadership had an indirect effect on organizational commitment, organizational justice had both a direct and an indirect effect on organizational
commitment and job satisfaction had a direct effect on organizational commitment.
4) Transformational leadership, organizational justice and job satisfaction had an indirect effect on organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment had only a direct effect on organizational citizenship behavior.
In conclusion, transformational leadership behavior makes an important contribution to inducing and maintaining an organizational citizenship behavior of nurses. Establishment of organizational justice in nursing department affects both job satisfaction and organizational commitment for nurses to achieve organizational citizenship behavior. The implication of these findings may lead to a strategy for the adoption of organizational citizenship behaviors of nurses and efficient management of human resources.
Key word : organizational citizenship behavior, transformational leadership, organizational justice, job satisfaction,
organizational commitment