Behind the Scenes of Health Care

CHAPTER 1

Culture and Employment

The time an individual stays with his or her employer is increasingly becoming more about elements of organizational culture, motivation, and outcomes driving individual organizational commitment. Organizational culture is composed of norms within an organization that impresses upon employees workplace experiences, expectations, organizational philosophy, and acceptable behaviors. Culture is also composed of shared beliefs, attitudes, and relationships indicating expected group behaviors.

When considering culture, motivation, and turnover, the phenomenon of an endless existence of turnover challenges has, as of late, been further complicated by the improvement and stabilization of unemployment rates in the United ...