The present study was aimed to examine the effect of job professionalism and esteem on organizational commitment of employers in mental health care centers. The organizational commitment questionnaire was designed to measure commitment with three aspects of loyalty, acceptance of the organization's value, and desire to maintain membership. Job professionalism was consisted of three aspects including knowledge and development, responsibility, and the ability of administration, and job esteem of four areas including positive value, relative benefit, negative treatment, and social reputation. Instruments were administered to the subjects who were 212 workers of 8 mental health care centers located in Gwangju and Jeonnam area.
The results of ANOVA and t-test indicated that significant differences were found in knowledge and development by education, degrees of workload, level of income, and work position, responsibility by level of job satisfaction, ability of administration by marital status, degrees of workload, level of job satisfaction, level of income. There were significant differences in positive value by marital status and level of job satisfaction, relative benefit by subject's sex, social reputation by marital status and level of job satisfaction. Also, significant differences were found in loyalty by age, education, marital status, area of work, level of job satisfaction, acceptance of the organization's value by marital status, area of work, duration of work, level of job satisfaction, level of income, work position, and desire to maintain membership by age, education, area of work, level of workload, level of job satisfaction, level of income, work position.
Controlling age, duration of work, level of workload and job satisfaction, it was examined the effect of job professionalism and esteem on organizational commitment including loyalty, acceptance of the organization's value, and desire to maintain membership. Results of hierarchical regression analysis indicated that knowledge and development, responsibility, ability of administration, positive value and relative benefit were significant variables in predicting loyalty. Significant relationship were found between acceptance of the organization's value and ability of administration and positive value and between desire to maintain membership and knowledge and development, responsibility, positive value, relative benefit, negative treatment. The overall findings of this study suggested that job professionalism and esteem were effected on work commitment of employers in mental health care centers.