Browsing by Author "Malinen, Rosa"

The study was carried out in a collaboration with a Finnish business organization which produces social and health services. Every year the organization conducts a personnel survey. Based on the survey the organization follows the development of different kinds of indexes in concern and unit levels. The purpose of this study was to examine connections between a few indexes because the organization analyses mainly just the yearly development of the indexes. The variables of this study were chosen together with the representative of the organization. The independent variable is foreman’s leadership. Commitment to own work and commitment to the organization were chosen as dependent variables. In addition to examining the connections, the purpose of this study was also to examine the formation of the variables critically and develop suggestions to alter the variables. Due to this examination the variable of commitment to own work turned into a variable of work engagement. Foreman’s leadership has been proved to have connection with many things in an organization, also to organizational commitment and work engagement. The study examined how much the foreman’s leadership can explain employees’ organizational commitment and work engagement. The hypothesis was that foreman’s leadership explains a part of the variation of commitment to organization and work engagement. The statistical examination was used to find out how big that part is. The study was carried out with a material which had been collected in the yearly personnel survey of the organization. The personnel survey was performed as an electric survey. All the employees in the concern were allowed to participate. Different kinds of indexes (sum variables) were formed from the claims the survey included. The variables were altered based on theory and examined statistically. All the variables filled the requirements of regression analysis so the foreman’s leadership’s influence on the dependent variables was tested with separate regression analyses. The results were codirectional with organizational commitment and work engagement. The foreman’s leadership had weak positive correlation with the dependent variables. The foreman’s leadership explained a rather small part of the variation of the dependent variables but it could explain some of the variation. In conclusion, the foreman’s leadership is one of many factors which explain organizational commitment and work engagement. More research is needed on both, organizational commitment and work engagement. Improving the variables of the personnel survey to match better with theory is also a result of this study.