Factors Related to Work Commitment of Homevisit Nurses: Examination that Uses HRM Checklist

Abstract

“HRM checklist” was used to verify related factors of work commitment (WC) in nursing and in working for a homevisit nursing care station, and the relationships to the attributes were verified. The subjects were 212 home visit nurses in 44 facilities in the Kanto region ,and 177 responses were used for the research (response rate 83.5%). As a result of the analysis, ① three items, age, employment title, and the form of employment were shown to be attributes related to WC. Moreover, a relationship to non-work life was seen for three of these attributes. ②“Remaining and desire” regarding organizational commitment of 50-year-old or more staff was higher in comparison with those less than 50 years old, and “Normative” was less among 50 years olds than 40 years olds. ③ Regarding employment title, managers and chiefs were compared with regular employees. There were many items that were high in both WC and work satisfaction regarding organizational commitment and this confirmed the dual commitment to organization “Affective” and “Continuous” and career. ④Commitment to duty was thus seen to be higher among permanent staff in comparison with part-time staff.