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Abstract
Supervisor support is an important relational work characteristic. It is the assistance from the supervisor as well as to the opportunities to develop friendships at the work place. Supervisor support positively affects work satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, meaningfulness of work, commitment reduced withdrawal intentions and increase job embeddedness. Furthermore, received assistance and advice from the supervisor may help to achieve work related goals and overcome challenges. Job embeddedness is the composite of reasons why employees remain at their jobs. It encompasses components of both job satisfaction and organizational commitment.
This study aimed to assess perceived nursing supervisor support and its influence on job embeddedness among staff nurses. Research questions of this study is : Is there an influence of perceived nursing supervisor support on job embeddedness among staff nurses?
A descriptive correlational design was used in carring out this study. This study was conducted at Cairo Fatemic Hospital, affiliated to specialized medical centers and ministry of health. Study subjects were 110 out from 150 staff nurses.
The data was collected by two tools namely: Perceived nursing supervisor support questionnaire and job embeddedness scale.
First tool: Perceived nursing supervisor support questionnaire adopted from (Abd El-Aziz, 2017), aimed to assess level of supervisor support as perceived by staff nurses, it included two parts: first part included personal and job characrteristics of study subjects including age, gender, marital status, qualification, years of experience in the current positions, attending training programs. second part contained 32 items related to perceived nursing supervisor support divided into four major dimensions: emotional support (7 items), instrumental support (9 items), role model (6 items) and creative work family management (10 items).
Second tool: job embeddedness scale was developed by Reitz, (2014), modified by the researchers & ascertained for its validity and reliability. Aimed to assess job embeddedness level among staff. It consisted of (19 items). Divided into two dimensions: Organizational embeddedness (9 items), job embeddedness (10 items).
The study result revealed that:
- The majority of studied staff nurses (81.8%) had high perception level regarding nursing supervisor support.
- The minority of studied staff nurses (12.7%) had moderate perception level regarding supervisor support.
- More than three fifth of studied staff nurses (61.9%) had high level of job embeddedness.
- Less than one third of studied staff nurses (30%) had moderate level of job embeddedness.
There were significant relations between total supervisor support of studied staff nurses and their work department and their marital status. Also, there were highly significant relations between total job embeddedness of studied nurses and work department. While there were no significant relations with age, years of experience and qualification.