Mediating Effects of Self-leadership in the Relationship between Public Health Nurses’ Organizational Culture and Their Job Performance

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Res Community Public Health Nurs. 2017;28(1):23-33

Publication date (electronic) : 2017 March 12

doi : https://doi.org/10.12799/jkachn.2017.28.1.23

Nam Hee Park ¹, Kyung Jo Lee ², Sang Ju Lee^,³

¹Department of Nursing, Inje University, Busan, Korea

²Busan Meropolitan City, Health Promotuin Division, Busan, Korea

³Department of Nursing, Dong-eui Institute of Technology, Busan, Korea

Corresponding author: Lee, Sang Ju Department of Nursing, Dong-eui Institute of Technology, 54 Yangji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47230, Korea. Tel: +82-51-860-3282, Fax: +82-51-860-3484, E-mail: sangju01@dit.ac.kr

Received 2016 November 11; Revised 2017 January 25; Accepted 2017 February 26.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to enhance organizational competitiveness of health centers as well as private medical institutions serving as public health and medical institutions. It tries to help them to cope with the requirements from health consumers, to enhance public health nurses’ job performance,

Methods

After verifying the reliability of the tool, confirmatory factor analysis was used to detect a model, in which valid path coefficients exist among variables. The detected model was then selected as the subject and its validity was verified. Finally, a structural equation model was applied to verify whether the estimate was suitable for the purpose of this research.

Results

As for the nursing organizational culture, the public health nurses considered relation-oriented culture the most desirable. As for the self-leadership, they considered self-compensation the most desirable. It was found that mediating effects of self-leadership was partially significant.

Conclusion

To enhance job performance, it is necessary to make a transition from the organizational culture to the relation-oriented culture and it is also necessary to develop a program capable of reinforcing self-leadership. In addition, it is necessary to conduct a research to verify whether such a developed self-leadership program is influential on job performance enhancement.

Keywords: Organizational culture; Job performance; Public health nurse

Figure 1.

Structural equation modeling using modified data.

Table 1.

Self-leadership and Work Performance according to Participants' Characteristics (N=189)

Table 2.

Pearson Correlation Coefficients for Organizational Culture, Self-leadership and Work Performance (N=189)

Table 3.

Variables Defined by Exploratory Factor Analysis (The Rotation Matrix Components)

Table 4.

Goodness-of-Fit Statistics for Structural Equation Model

Table 5.

Path Estimates for Structural Equation, Effects of Standardized, and Bootstrapping

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