J Korean Acad Nurs Adm.  2014 Dec;20(5):469-480. 10.11111/jkana.2014.20.5.469.

Clinical Nurses' Experience of Positive Organizational Culture

• Yom YH
• Noh SM
• Kim KH

• KMID: 2321262
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2014.20.5.469

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study was conducted to explore clinical nurses' experience of positive organizational culture in order to provide data for effective strategies of acquisition and retention of competent nurses.
METHODS
In this qualitative study, interviews with four focus groups of four to six nurses, 19 in total, were held. Compositional factors in groups included clinical experience, age, work place, and position. Interviews proceeded until data were saturated.
RESULTS
Fifteen sub-themes, categorized into six themes, emerged. Positive organizational culture themes included "Helping nurses to be organization members", "Allowing nurses to communicate with one another", "Helping nurses take an initiative to lead organization", "Having competent leader take charge of organization", "Enabling nurses to achieve organizational changes", and "Leading nurses to accomplish organizational performance."
CONCLUSION
Results indicate that positive organizational culture is related to increases in occupational satisfaction and decreases in turnover through supportive organizational culture which makes it possible to reinvest expenses required for training new members to promoting quality growth in the organization and the prestige of professional nurses. In order to improve occupational satisfaction and sustained growth in nurses, it is necessary to provide nurses with positive work environments and require members to make active efforts leading to strategic changes.

Keyword

Nursing organizational culture; Clinical nurse; Nurses' working environment; Focus group

MeSH Terms

Focus Groups
Organizational Culture*
Workplace

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