Abstract
Today, health care facilities are expected to innovate in their organizations. It is said that success of the innovation depends on understanding organizational culture. But, in fact, the concept is not yet fully understood. Here, I tried to identify a concept of organizational culture in nursing organization.
I used Hybrid Model in this work. In the first phase, I reviewed articles on anthropology, business and nursing. In the second phase, I did field work at two general hospitals for six months. And then, I integrated the results from the two phases.
As the result, it has been found that the organizational culture is composed of three levels: artifacts, values/norms, and basic underlying assumptions, which is the essence. And nursing organizational culture has three aspects:basic underlying assumptions on the groups, basic underlying assumptions on the jobs, and basic underlying assumptions on the nurse, and those three aspects are overlapping.
