![]() | Only 14 pages are availabe for public view |
Abstract Empowerment provides employees with higher degrees of involvement and greater authority to make decisions on their own. To create condition for work effectiveness; ensuring employees access for information, support, opportunities and resources is necessary. Organizational commitment reflects a degree of congruity between workers expectations of the job, and experience of the job. It expresses the amount of agreement between these expectations and the rewards the job provides. Empowered employees feel that they have control over significant aspects of work and develop increasing feeling of self-efficacy and appreciation of their abilities and skills. Self-efficacy has been associated with effective performance. Additionally, it is generally implicit that an empowered work place will be more committed and productive. The present study aimed at identifying the relationship between nurse teachers’ empowerment and their organizational commitment through assessing levels of empowerment among nurse teachers, determining level of organizational commitment among them and investigating the relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment among nurse teachers . The study was conducted at all Secondary Technical Nursing Schools at Elfayoum Governorate. These schools were affiliated to general administration for technical nursing schools and institutes at the Ministry of Health. So fifty nurse teachers who worked in the aforementioned settings and were responsible for teaching nursing education courses and had one year experience in nursing education; were eligible to be included in the study. Data for this study were collected by using two tools namely; Condition of work Empowerment Questionnaire (CWEQ) and Organizational commitment scale. The results of this study have shown the following findings: 1- Slightly more than half of the studied nurse teachers had age more than 35 years. Nearly three quarters of the nurse teachers were married. Regarding level of education, more than half of study subjects had Nursing diploma with specialty diploma in teaching methods. 56% of the studied nursing teachers had more than 10 years of experience working in their current school. Half of study subjects attended training course in teaching. 2- Access of support, as source of work empowerment, had got the highest percent score. On the other hand, access of resources, as a source of work empowerment, had the lowest percent score.3- Affective, as a domain of organizational commitment, had got the highest score. While, the normative, as a domain of organizational commitment, had the lowest score. 4- There are strong positive relations between total empowerment and total organizational commitment among nurse teachers. Based on the results of this study, it was recommended that: 1- Top management must extend their understanding of the factors influencing organizational commitment in order to enhance quality of work life. 2- Nurse teachers should participate in taking decisions about their work. 3- Facilitating the opportunities of attending programs and meeting in order to develop knowledge; is necessary. 4- Books and internet services should be available to increases chance of having more updated knowledge. 5- Increasing access to resources needed for the work; is necessary. |