Organizational Climate according to Expectation of Professional Nurses within Different Generation in Tertiary Hospital, A Health Area
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This cross-sectional survey research aimed to study organizational climate according to different generation professional nurses’ expectations in a tertiary hospital, a health area. Samples were 350 professional nurses of three generations: Baby boomer, generation X and generation Y obtained by stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a questionnaire about organizational climate according to the expectation of professional nurses in different generations. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics those were frequency, percentage, means, and standard deviation. Nonparametric statistic, independent samples Kruskal-Willis test was used to compare pairwise differences at a statistical significance level of 0.05. The results of the study showed that the overall organizational climate from the expectation of different generation professional nurses was very high (x̅ = 4.11, S.D. = 0.53). The areas of highest score were organizational structure and responsibility (x̅ = 4.28, S.D. = 0.60 and x̅ = 4.28, S.D. = 0.57 respectively). The area with the lowest score was awards (x̅ = 3.93, S.D. = 0.89). There were different organization climate scores between nurses in generation X and generation Y and between baby boomer generation and generation Y (p < 0.01). The different expectation between generation X and generation Y were found in the 3 areas of organizational structure, organizational identity and loyalty, and organizational risk with statistical significance (p<0.05). There was statistical different expectation between baby boomer generation and generation Y in the areas of organizational identity and loyalty (p<0.01).
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