The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the child care center director's transformational leadership on the organizational committment of the child care teachers. The research subjects were 292 child care teachers who worked in 43 facilities of the eastern part of Jeon Nam Province. The data analysis was performed by using SPSS Win 15.0 Program. The results of this study were as follows. First, the teachers rated the transformational leadership of the director as 2.39 points in a scale of 5 points which was recognized as a normal level. Among the transformational leadership categories, the category of vision setting was the highest and the category of setting an example was the lowest. Second, the level of organizational committment of the teachers is rated 3.70 points in a scale of 5 points. Among the organizational commitment categories, the category of normative committment was the highest and followed by the category of affective and continuance commitment. More transformational leadership was related to more organizational commitment from teachers.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the moderating effect of empowerment of perioperative nurses in the relationship between their patient safety culture awareness and safety management activities of surgery nurses. Methods: The participants were 262 perioperative nurses in JeollaNam-do, JeollaBuk-do, and GyungsangNam-do. Patient safety culture awareness, safety management activities, and empowerment were measured using self-report questionnaires from October 20 to November 10, 2014. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS Win 24.0 for Windows. Results: The results of the study were as follows. the average score of patient safety culture awareness of surgery nurses was 3.57±0.48, that on safety management was 4.22±0.54, and that on empowerment was 3.67±0.63. In correlational analyses, there were significant positive correlations between patient safety culture awareness and not only safety management activity but also empowerment. Moreover, patient safety culture awareness and empowerment showed meaningful positive correlations. Empowerment of nurses influences the relationship between their patient safety culture awareness and safety management activity. Conclusion: In sum, it found that empowerment of surgery nurses affects the relationship between patient safety culture awareness and safety management activity. To provide safe nursing, it is necessary to continue developing programs to increase safety management activities and educate empowerment and conduct follow-up studies of strategic policies so that patient safety culture awareness can be established and human resources within the organization can be supported.
This study sought to determine the mediating effect of followership in the relationship between the leadership of child care center director and empowerment as perceived by child care teachers. Data were collected from 294 child care teachers in child care centers located in four cities labeled A, B and C through a structured questionnaire. To describe data the Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were computed. The level of child care center director's leadership which child care teacher perceived was 3.64 points in a scale of 5 points, child care teacher's empowerment was 3.50 points in a scale of 5 points and followership was 3.30 points in a scale of 5 points. COMMENT A positive correlations were found between leadership, empowerment and followership. Followership was shown to be a mediating variable between child care teachers' perceptions of leadership and empowerment. Furthermore, results also showed a strong relationship between the leadership of child-care center director and the child-care teachers' followership and empowerment, thus implying that the child-care teachers' followership is very important to increase the empowerment..
Purpose: This study was designed as descriptive study to research how the culture of nursing organizations effects on the correlations between the leadership styles of head nurses and the nursing performance. Methods: The research participants were 310 nurses working at the general hospitals in S city. Leadership styles of head nurses, nursing performance, nursing organizational culture were used as measuring devices. Results: The analysis result of moderating effect of nursing organizational culture between leadership styles of head nurses and nursing performance indicated that the interaction between leadership of head nurses and nursing organizational culture is meaningful and, eventually, there is difference of effects of transformational, transactional, and emotional leadership on nursing performance depending on nursing organizational culture. Conclusion: In conclusion, it is expected that as nursing organizational culture gets improved, the effect of the leadership on nursing performance will increase. Therefore, plans to emphasize and manage the characteristic of nursing organizational culture should be considered and along with the speculation of leadership styles of head nurses, alternatives to apply them to current nursing organizations and put them into practice should be made.
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