Climate and organizational performance in long‐term care facilities: The role of affective commitment.

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Article

Publication Date

7-28-2018

Abstract

Organizational climate represents the shared perceptions that employees have about their experiences at work. A persistent goal of the literature has been to relate organizational climate to organizational outcomes. Yet, potential mediating mechanisms of those relationships remain underexplored. This study addresses this shortcoming by exploring the mediating role of affective organizational commitment in the relationship between a climate for nursing and organizational performance. Our data included responses from a sample of 268 nurses working in 28 long-term care facilities and multiple years of government ratings of the quality of care provided by each of those facilities. Using multilevel structural equation modelling, we found that the nurses’ affective commitment mediated the relationship between nursing climate and quality care provided both concurrently (in the same year as the data were collected) and predictively (one year later). We also found that the mediational process predicts unique variance in the lagged assessment of quality of care provided that is not accounted for by the previous year's performance. This suggests the influence of climate on affective commitment and, consequently, organizational performance may take time to become apparent. Implications for the roles of climate and affective commitment on organizational performance are discussed.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12235

Original Citation

Woznyj, H. J., Heggestad, E. D., Kennerly, S., Yap, T. L. (2018). Climate and organizational performance in long-term care facilities: The role of affective commitment. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.

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