The Influence of Constructive Organizational Culture on The Learning Organization of Professional Nurses in Phrae Hospital

Abstract

This research aimed to study the levels of learning organization and constructive organizational culture among professional nurses in Phrae Hospital, and to examinethe predictive power of constructiveorganizational culture on learning organization among professionalnurses.The sample of the study consisted of 212 professional nurses from Phrae Hospital. Research instruments included 3 parts of questionnaires; personal information, learning organization, and constructive organizational culture. Content validity was tested by 5 experts from nursing administration area with the Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) ranged from 0.8 to 1.0. The reliability was tested using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and yielded alpha of 0.964 for learning organization part and 0.822 for constructive organizational culture part. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis with Stepwise Selection Method. The results of the study showed that professional nurses in Phrae Hospital had average scores of learning organization and constructive organizational culture at the high level ( = 3.73, SD = 0.40; = 3.90, SD = 0.36, respectively). Constructive organizational culture could predict learning organization. The Humanistic-encouragingdimension had the highest predictive value and accounted for 56.50% of variance in learning organization (R2 = 0.56, β = 0.53, p < .01). The Affiliative dimension could add 4% and the Achievement dimension could add 2.0% of predictive value on learning organization (R2 change =0.04, β = 0.22, p < .01; R2 change = 0.02, β = 0.15, p < .01, respectively).