MANAGERIAL STRATEGY AND NURSING COMMITMENT IN AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALS

This study examined the relationship of managerial strategy and nursin g commitment in Australian hospitals, The general principles of manage rial strategy and employee response were illustrated and the meaning o f commitment and resistance were defined. Data were collected by quest ionnaire survey and interviews, The result demonstrated that the middl e manager/nurse unit manager played an important role in generating nu rsing commitment in the workplace. Trust and identification were the m ost relevant components of nursing commitment. However, the study also found that there was still a high degree of distrust between senior m anagement and nurses. Change strategies which nurse managers could app ly to promote greater organizational commitment in nursing are discuss ed.