Child welfare agency climate influence on worker commitment

Nancy Claiborne, Charles Auerbach, Catherine Lawrence, Junqing Liu, Brenda G. McGowan, Gretta Fernendes and Julie Magnano

Children and Youth Services Review, 2011, vol. 33, issue 11, 2096-2102

Abstract: This research focuses on understanding the relationship of organizational climate to commitment for child welfare workers in private, non-governmental organizations. Commitment is measured as a latent construct of agency investment derived from Landsman's study (2001). Agency investment includes measures of workers' time, cost, and emotional difficulty for changing their line of work. Organizational climate is embedded in Parker et al. (2003) modification of James and colleagues' theory of primary domains of work environment perceptions. Parker's Psychological Climate survey measured organizational climate. Four hundred forty-one workers in three not-for-profit agencies under contract with the public child welfare system were sampled. Autonomy, Challenge and Innovation were significantly associated with agency investment. This indicates that worker perceptions of having job autonomy, the job being challenging, and the organization as innovative predict greater job commitment.

Keywords: Child Welfare; Workforce commitment; Psychological climate; Organizational climate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.06.002

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