title: The mediating role of organizational subcultures in health care organizations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study aims to investigate the mediating role of organizational subculture between job satisfaction, organizational commitment (dependent variables) and leadership, culture (independent variables) in health care organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  A survey on nurses from 26 wards from various types of hospital was used. A total of 251 usable returns were collected for the analysis (i.e. response rate of 63 per cent). Structural equation analysis was conducted to obtain the best fit model and to determine the direction of the causal effect between job satisfaction and commitment, and the role of subculture as a mediating variable, between commitment of its other antecedents.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Comparisons with alternative models confirmed satisfaction as an antecedent of commitment and the role of subculture as a mediating variable. The results of this study contribute to the clarification of the causal relations of the antecedents of commitment, and highlight the important role of local leadership and subculture in determining employees' job satisfaction and commitment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study should not be generalized to other industries and other national cultural context. Furthermore, a longitudinal study may be necessary to determine the causal relationship of variables used in this study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings could provide managers with valuable insight to focus their limited resources on improving the level of organizational commitment via the mediating role of organizational culture.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The research findings provide managers with a new lens to examine organizational culture using the three perspectives of: bureaucratic, supportive, and innovative. Furthermore, the results could renew interest in developing other organizational subculture models that determine the relationship between organizational subculture and commitment
authors: ITLS, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. peteer.lok@sydney.edu.au
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Lok
authors: Jo
authors: J
authors: Rhodes
authors: Bob
authors: B
authors: Westwood
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires