J Korean Acad Nurs Adm.  2015 Sep;21(4):375-385. 10.11111/jkana.2015.21.4.375.

Role of Self-leadership and Social Support in the Relationship between Job Embeddedness and Job Performance among General Hospital Nurses

• Lee HS
• Yom YH

• KMID: 2069559
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.11111/jkana.2015.21.4.375

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of nurses' job performance with job embeddedness, self-leadership and social support and the role of self-leadership and social support in the relation between job embeddedness and job performance among general hospital nurses.
METHODS
The participants for this study were 244 nurses from 3 general hospitals in Seoul and Gyunggi Province. Data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe test, Pearson correlation and Hierarchical Multiple Regression.
RESULTS
Job performance showed positive correlations with job embeddedness (r=.56, p<.001), self-leadership(r=.68, p<.001), organizational support (r=.30, p<.001), supervisors' support (r=.31, p<.001) and colleagues' support (r=.31, p<.001). Job embeddedness and self-leadership had significant influence on nurses' job performance. However self-leadership and social support did not show moderating effects of job embeddedness on nurses' job performance.
CONCLUSION
These findings indicate that job embeddednes and self-leadership are important factors to enhance nurses' job performance. Therefore, promoting activities for job embeddedness and self-leadership might be a way to increase nurses' job performance. As there was no moderating effects of self-leadership and social support on job embeddedness and job performance, further studies are necessary to refine these findings in different environments.

Keyword

Nurses; Job embeddedness; Leadership; Social support; Job satisfaction

MeSH Terms

Hospitals, General*
Job Satisfaction
Leadership
Seoul

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  Figure 1 Conceptual framework.

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