Abstract:

Organizational commitment is one of the concepts that are widely researched in the nursing. However, there are differences in the research results regarding the level of organizational commitment of nurses. This study aimed to investigate the results of researches on the organizational commitment levels of nurses in Turkey. This study was designed as a literature review model and it was conducted using several keywords such as “organizational commitment” and “nurse” in different databases in Turkish and English. As a result, 41 studies were accessed complying with the inclusion criteria. The total sample size of the research was 10,287 nurses for affective commitment, 9,836 nurses for continuance commitment, and 9,898 nurses for normative commitment. The research included 41 studies that were published between 2006-2018. 68.29% (28 studies) of these studies were graduate studies (master theses and doctoral dissertations) and 92.68% (38 studies) were published in 2010 and afterward. It was reported that 84.2% of these studies in the research had lower levels of affective commitment, lower levels of continuance commitment in 84.2% of these studies and lower levels of normative commitment in 97.4% of these studies. The results of correlation analysis indicated no correlation between affective, continuance and normative commitment level of the nurses and data collection years. It was concluded that the organizational commitment level of nurses were low and no linear increase or decrease was found in the commitment level over the years.

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