The relationships between different employment modules and work performance as well as organizational commitment among primary caring staff in Nursing Homes

[[abstract]]The gist of study is to analyze the relationships between different employment modules and work performance, as well as organizational commitments among primary caring staff in nursing homes. The result will be a reference for healthcare facilities in human resources management. The four objectives of the research is mainly: 1.To understand the profile of employment module of primary caring staff in nursing home with 50 beds in the middle area of Taiwan. 2.To study the relationships between different employment modules about work performance among primary caring staff in nursing homes. 3.To study the relationship between work performance and organizational commitments among primary caring staff in nursing homes. 4.To confer the relationship among employment modules and commitment. The samples were collected from nursing homes with at least 50 beds among four counties/cities(Taichung County,Taichung City,Changhua County,Nantou County) in the middle area of Taiwan. A cross-sectional study by means of structured questionnaires were undertaken. During 2005 November to 2006 January, there are 392 questionnaires sent out and 306 returned, valid ones including 252(64.2%). The major findings of this study are showed as follows: 1.The work performance of formal employees are better than that of contract employees. 2.Formal employees are more willing to learn than contract employees at on-the-job training. 3.Under the control of demographic characteristics, there is no statistical relationship between employment modules and organizational commitments. 4.Under the control of demographic characteristics, organizational commitment is unrelated to work performance. 5.Partial demographic factors are significantly related to work performance and organizational commitments. The study implies large number use of contract employees may lead to a gap of expected work performance, therefore, nursing homes administrations shall pay more attention on employment modules