The purpose of the research mainly is to discuss the state and attribute of organizational commitment of caring staff in nursing homes ,then to understand person characteristic、job situation、organizational environment are effect on variables among organizational commitment and analyze to influent factors of organizational commitment.
The cases were collected from nursing homes which belong above 50 beds among four countries cities（Taichung county city, Nanyou County, Zhanghua County）of Middle of Taiwan. A cross-sectional study by means of structural formula questionnaires were undertaken. There are 392 issued and 306 returned,294 are useful（the rate is 96%）.The SPSS for window 12.0 was applied as the tool for statistic analysis in this study. The statistic methods used in this research are as
follow: mean, standard deviation, T-test, one-way ANOVA Analysis, and Regression Analysis.
The results of this study showed that:
1. The organizational commitment of caring staff in nursing homes is high. Affective commitment is stronger , Normative commitment is moderate and Continuance commitment is weak between organizational commitment of caring staff in nursing home.
2. The person characteristic such as age、seniority and work value were significant positive correlation with organizational commitment. Education and official rank were significant negative correlation with
organizational commitment.
3. The job situation such as workload was significant negative correlation with organizational commitment, while other variables were significant positive correlation with organizational commitment.
4. The organizational environment such as organizational culture、educational training、development of promotion、facility appraisal、salary-welfare and physical environment were significant positive correlation with organizational commitment.
5. Facility appraisal、age、job load、innovative culture、salary-welfare、educational training、work value 、official rank have the significantly forecast ability to variance of organizational commitment and account for 31.6% variance of organizational commitment.
According to the study results, some suggestions will be made for management in this field.
