A Study on Nurses' Self-leadership, Organizational Commitment and the Nursing Performance

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify nurses' self-leadership, organizational commitment and their nursing performance, and examine the relationship among them. Method: A total of 330 clinical nurses with more than one year nursing experiences were recruited from 10 hospitals in G city and J province in Korea. Data were collected using questionnaires from March, 12 to April 21, 2007. For data analyzed using SPSS 12.0 for windows program, Results: There were significant positive correlations between self-leadership, organizational commitment, and independent, dependent, and interpersonal nursing performances. In addition, the organizational commitment had significant positive correlations with independent, dependent, and interpersonal nursing performances. Conclusion: These findings suggest that nurses' organizational commitment and nursing performance ability will be enhanced by hospitals' active supports such as empowering individual nurses' self-leadership through enlarging their autonomy and strengthening their ability to control themselves.