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Abstract
Nurses who have high levels of job involvement and participation consider their work responsibilities to be an important part of their life, and how they perform on their individual occupations is directly linked to how they feel about themselves. Working well on the job is incredibly vital for employees who are extremely concerned about their self-esteem.
Job involvement has been found to have a significant impact on organizationally relevant outcomes. Studies suggest that job involvement has a positive relationship with organizational commitment and professional commitment and these are important factors which affect professionals ’job satisfaction, turnover intention, role stress, productivity, and job migration.
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between job involvement and organizational commitment among staff nurses. What is the relationship between job involvement and organizational commitment among staff nurses? This descriptive correlational study was conducted at the study was conducted at General Fakous Hospital that affiliated to Ministry of Health, Egypt that affiliated to the Ministry of Health. Subjects of the study included (196 out 396 staff nurses) from all hospital departments. Data collection for the current study was collected using two data collection tools namely; 1) job involvement Scale, and 2) organizational commitment questionnaire.
The present study revealed the following main results:
One quarter (25.6%) of them had a high level regarding total job involvement. While less than one quarter (23.3%) of them had low level regarding total job involvement.
More than one fifth (22%) of staff nurses had a high level regarding Normative commitment dimension. While more than one quarter (27.5%) of them had low level regarding Affective commitment dimension.
There was a highly positive correlation between different dimensions of job involvement and there was a highly positive correlation between total of job involvement and organizational commitment among staff nurses.
there was a highly positive correlation between total of job involvement and organizational commitment among staff nurses
Shows that there was significant statistical relationship between all staff nurses’ personal characteristics and job involvement except age.
Conclusion: one quarter of studied nurses had a high level regarding total job involvement. Meanwhile, minority of staff nurses had a high level regarding total organizational commitment. Additionally, there was a highly positive correlation between different dimension of job involvement and organizational commitment dimensions among staff nurses. Finally, there was a highly positive correlation between total of job involvement and organizational commitment among staff nurses.
Based on the study findings, it is recommended to:
Administrators must adopt an open-door policy. This will provide employees the opportunity to freely express their views without being reprimanded.
Nurse Managers need to be emotionally intelligent and more open-minded when dealing with their staff.
Provide Training program that increase awareness about job involvement and how it affect nurse’s performance of staff nurses.
Provide opportunity for staff nurses to participate in taking active decisions in the organization.
Provide spiritual, trustful and friendly work environment for creating emotional relationship with employees and commitment.