A Pilot Study on the Mediating Effect of Job Embeddednesss on the Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Organizational Commitment

ObjectiveTo explore the association between clinical leadership and quality of work life, as well as the mediating role of coping style in this relationship.SettingThree tertiary-level hospitals in Liaoning Province, China.ParticipantsA total of 1209 nurses were recruited for this study. Registered nurses who work full time with at least 1 year of work experience were eligible as subjects. Exclusion criteria were nurses who work indirectly with patients, such as in education, administration or research.Primary and secondary outcome measuresQuestionnaires consisting of the work-related Quality of Life Scale, the Nurse Leadership Scale and the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, as well as a demographic data sheet, were used to collect participant information. Pearson’s correlation analysis, hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and asymptotic and resampling strategies were used to analyse the data.ResultsThe mean overall quality of work life score among Chinese nurses was 3.50±0.60. After adjusting for demographic characteristics, clinical leadership was positively associated with the score of quality of work life (β=0.55, p<0.01). Clinical leadership explained 27% of the variance in quality of work life. Coping style partially mediated the relationship between clinical leadership and quality of work life. The proportion of mediation of active coping was 21.82% and of passive coping was 5.79%.ConclusionsClinical leadership was positively associated with quality of work life and coping style partially mediated the relationship between clinical leadership and quality of work life among nurses in China. Implementing measures focusing on both clinical leadership and coping style may provide success in improving the quality of work life of nurses.

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Effect of Saudi nurses’ perceived work-life quality on work engagement and organizational commitment

International Journal of ADVANCED AND APPLIED SCIENCES ◽

10.21833/ijaas.2021.06.009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 79-87

Author(s):

Hassona et al. ◽

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Nursing Staff ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Life Quality ◽

Work Life ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Quality Of Work Life ◽

Teaching Staff ◽

Quality Of Work

The nurse faculty at the University of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia is responsible for academic and in-service education for nursing discipline and for staff and organizational research. They are considered critical players in assuring quality educational experiences that prepare the nursing workforce for a diverse, ever-changing health care environment. Nowadays, Ha’il University is seeking accreditation, which includes evidence that the working environment is appropriate for both students and the teaching staff. Also, managements in public higher education institutions recently have utilized quality of work-life as a tool for attracting and retaining talented academic staff. Because with having quality of work-life commitment and loyalty of the employees created to its potential. Thus the aim of this study is to test the mediating effect of quality of work-life on the relationship between work engagement and organizational commitment among academic nursing staff at Ha’il University. Measures were the quality of the work-life scale, the short form of the Utrecht work engagement scale, and an organizational commitment questionnaire. The results indicated that the academic nursing staff had satisfactory levels of work-life quality (3.56±0.62) and high work engagement (4.76±1.12) and a positive organizational commitment result (3.09±0.22). A correlation was found between quality of work-life and organizational commitment. However, there was neither a significant relationship between quality of work-life and work engagement nor was there between work engagement and organizational commitment. The conclusion was therefore that quality of work-life does not mediate the work engagement and organizational commitment relationship.

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The Effect of the Relationship between Organizational Excellence and Quality of Work-Life on Organizational Commitment: An Applied Study on the Health Services Sector in Taif City

International Journal of Human Resource Studies ◽

10.5296/ijhrs.v10i2.16860 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 280

Author(s):

Mohammed Farag Alaqla

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Health Sector ◽

Work Life ◽

Quality Of Work Life ◽

Quality Of Work ◽

Organizational Excellence ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Analytical Approaches ◽

The Relationship

Over the last era of the twentieth century, rapidly drastic changes in the economic environment have occurred. These changes have led to increasing the intensity of global competition. Therefore, the organizations’ success and survival are nowadays dependent on their rapid response to adapt to the ongoing changes. This paper mainly aims to examine the relationship between organizational excellence, quality of work-life, and organizational commitment. It also aims to identify differences among the respondents’ perceptions about their awareness of organizational excellence, the quality of work-life, and organizational commitment. To this end, the descriptive and analytical approaches were adopted to achieve the objectives of the study through collecting, describing, and analyzing data to examine the hypothesized relationships between the variables of the study. Data from published research, journals, and periodicals, in addition to data based on a field study, were used for analysis. The respondents of the study included employees in the health sector (government hospitals) in Taif City, namely doctors, nursing staff, and managers of medical departments. The results showed that there is a statistically significant effect of organizational excellence on both the quality of work-life and organizational commitment. It was found that there is no significant difference among the respondents’ perceptions about their awareness of organizational excellence, the quality of work-life, and organizational commitment according to their profession. Accordingly, it is recommended to emphasize the requirements of organizational excellence requirements regarding the leadership of the Saudi health institutions and review strategies, which are developed based on the standards of excellence.

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The role of quality of work life in the relationship between psychological capital and organizational commitment among faculty members at the Faculty of Education, Taif University

International Journal of research in Educational Sciences ◽

10.29009/ijres.1.4.4 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (4) ◽

pp. 109-182

Author(s):

Mahmoud Abosaif ◽

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Work Life ◽

Faculty Members ◽

Quality Of Work Life ◽

Quality Of Work ◽

Faculty Of Education ◽

The Relationship

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Mediator Role of Organizational Commitment to Performance

Management Analysis Journal ◽

10.15294/maj.v9i4.40961 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 413-424

Author(s):

Nurluviyana Nurluviyana ◽

Ketut Sudarma

Keyword(s):

Organizational Commitment ◽

Spiritual Leadership ◽

Work Life ◽

Quality Of Work Life ◽

Validity And Reliability ◽

Sampling System ◽

Quality Of Work ◽

And Performance ◽

The Relationship

The aims of this study is to determaine the effect of spiritual leadership (X1) and quality of work life (X2) on performance (Y2) with organizational commitment (Y1) as a mediation on employees of Wimarion Hotel Semarang. The type and design of the research used in this study is quantitative research. Sampling in this study using a saturated sampling system and obtained the sample size that must be used is 70 employees. The analytical method used is the test instrument (validity and reliability), classic assumption test, and hypothesis testing with IBM SPSS Verse 23 and mediation testing with Sobel test. Application methods of data collection using interviews, quetionnares, and literature studies. The result of this study show that all of seven hypotheses were accepted. Therefore could be known that spiritual leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Quality of work life has a positive and significant effect on organizational commitment. Spiritual leadership has a positive and significant effect on performance. Quality of work life has a positive dan significant effect on performance. Organizational commitment has a positive dan significant effect on performance. Organizational commitment is able to mediate the relationship between spiritual leadership and performance. And organizational commitment is able to mediate the relationship between quality of work life and performance.

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