| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 醫護管理研究所 === 89 === A cohesive approach to communication networks was adopted to investigate the relationships between organizational members’ communication relations and the degree of similarity in their organization commitment. Specifically, this studey examined members’ amount of communication, connectedness, and centrality in three types of communication networks (i.e., work, friendship, and vision-sharing networks) and related each of these variables to commitment similarity.
The entire 188 employees in a district teaching hospital were surveyed by network type questionnaires and Organizational Commitment Questionnaires (Mowday, Steers, and Porter, 1979). With a response rate of 65%, the results indicated that the member’s amount of communication in vision-sharing networks was positively related to his/her commitment similarity with that of the whole organizational members. While the member’s connectedness and centrality in a network were not found to be singnificantly related to his/her commitment similarity with that of the whole organization, one’s involvement in a vision-sharing network did have a greater impact on the formation of similar commitment among network members than his/her involvement in either work or friendship networks.
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