英文摘要 |
Organizational commitment (OC) has been a topic attracting a multitude of studies in social sciences. OC represents an identification with the values and involvement in organizations. Factors affecting OC include organizational characteristics and work factors. Medical workers have complained about their long work hours, too much overtime work, and low pay. This paper adopts a labor-process perspective to examine the effects of labor conditions and subjective evaluation of the worth of work on OC. The data came from a selfadministered questionnaire survey to nurses and doctors in three hospitals (two public, and one private) in Taiwan in 2014. There are more than 4,000 valid observations in the analysis. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), the authors find that nurses on average have greater OC than doctors, and medical workers in the two public hospitals have greater OC than those in the private one. Feeling empowered in the labor process and having supportive social relations in the workplace have positive effects on OC for both nurses and doctors. Working in hostile environments such as having been assaulted by patients and colleagues lowers nurses' OC. Overall findings confirm the explanatory power of the labor process factors and indicate the complexity of obtaining labor's consent in the workplace. |