The predictive relationship of career growth on the organizational commitment and its specific components among Indonesian private hospital nurses

• Main Author: Amelwatin, Theodorius
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Nurses > Indonesia; Organizational commitment; Career development; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_counseling/8; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdm_counseling/article/1007/viewcontent/The_Predictive_Relationship_of_Career_Growth_on_The_Organizationa_Redacted.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

The purpose of this explanatory sequential mixed methods study was to investigate whether career growth and demographic factors (i.e., age, gender, work experience, and work location) predict organizational commitment and its components among Indonesian private hospital nurses by obtaining quantitative results from surveying 391 current hospital nurses then following up with 30 purposefully selected respondents to explore those results more in depth. In the quantitative phase, career growth and demographic factors were found to be predictors to Indonesian nurses’ commitment to their hospitals in terms of organizational commitment and its components. In the qualitative follow up, three main themes emerged: (1) positive environment, (2) emotional involvement in the workplace, and (3) challenges faced in the hospital. The quantitative and qualitative findings from the two phases of the study were discussed with reference to prior research and available literature on career growth and organizational commitment. Implications and recommendations for the counseling practices and for the hospital policy makers were presented. Keywords: career growth, organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuance commitment, normative commitment, private hospital nurses, explanatory sequential mixed methods study.