and social costs (friendship ties
with co-workers) that would be incurred. The
employee remains a member of the organization
because he/she "has to."
In Normative Commitment (NC) the individual
commits to and remains with an organization
because of feelings of obligation. These
feelings may derive from many sources. For example,
the organization may have invested resources
in training an employee who then feels
a "moral" obligation to put forth effort on the
job and stay with the organization to "repay the
debt." It may also reflect an internalized norm,
developed before the person joins the organization
through family or other socialization processes,
that one should be loyal to one's organization.
The employee stays with the organization
because he/she "ought to."9,15
Study conducted by Wang (2005) in the University
of Minnesota showed that the components
of learning organization consist of: participation,
team learning, creating a systematic
thinking, culture of learning organization and
collaboration. Leadership strategy has a correlation
with organizational commitment. He studied
organization commitment in its three dimensions:
affective, normative and continuance.
These components had a relationship with the
dimensions of organizational commitment.16
Egan et al (2004) showed that creating a culture
of learning organization and job satisfaction
and organizational commitment are positively
related.17
A study conducted by Jeong et al (2007)
showed that there is a relationship between the
establishment of principles of organization and
effectiveness of nurse managers (629 people).
This cross-sectional study has been done in 9
hospitals in South Korea to measure the effectiveness
of nurse managers, job satisfaction and
organizational commitments. The results indicated
that the establishment of the principles of
learning organization and organizational commitment
are related. These principals have increased
commitment up to 24.9% and improved
job satisfaction up to 22.6% in nurse managers.
Principles of factors of this research are learning
organization of Peter Senge's.18