Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to examine relationships between personal factor, organizational support, and job performance of director of nursing in community hospitals ; and to study the predictors of job performance of director of nursing, community hospitals. The study subjects consisted of 247 director of nursing who were selected by cluster sampling. The instruments were organizational support, and job performance questionnaires. These questionnaires were tested for content validity and reliability with alpha coefficient of .93, and .97, respectively. Statistical methods of frequency, mean, standard deviation, pearsonʼs product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze study data. Major finding were as follows : 1. There was a high level of job performance of director of nursing. (X= 3.52, S.D. = .45) 2. Personal factors of exprience, level of degree education, and organizational support were significantly related to job performance of director of nursing at .05 level. (r = .12, .25, and.41 respectively) 3. Factors significantly predicted job performance of director of nursing were organizational support, and level of degree education at .05 level. These predictors were accounted for 21 percents of variance (R2= .21). The results from this study indicate the important contribution that education, and organizational support would explain job performance of director of nursing. It can also used as guideline for job performance of director of nursing.