Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between the nurse's followership, job satisfaction and organizational
commitment.
The sample consisted of 173 nurses of 2 private university hospitals.
The instruments used in this study were the followership scale (Kelly, 1994), the job satisfaction scale (Slavitts
et al., 1978), the organizational commitment questionnaire (Mowday et al., 1979) and the demographic
questionnaire. SPSS/WIN program was used for descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation
analysis of data.
The results were as follows:
1) The styles of followership were classified as pragmatist followers (73.4%), exemplary followers
(19.7%), passive followers (4.6%), and alienated followers (2.3%).
2) The mean of independent/ critical thinking was 3.32 (M=3.0), and active involvement was 3.04
(M=3.0). As a whole, the mean of followership was 3.18 (M=3.0), job satisfaction was 2.82 (M=2.5),
and organizational commitment was 3.97 (M=3.5).
3) Significant differences were found in the degree of clinical nurses' perception of followership
according to the demographic characteristics such as age, education, position, and career.
4) Significant differences were found in the degree of clinical nurses' perception of followership
according to followership styles.
5) The followership was significantly related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
In conclusion, the nurse's followership is considered as an important concept and this suggested that the
concept could be used as a major variable in measuring effectiveness of nursing organization.