THE EFFECT OF NURSES' PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT ON ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION, JOB STRESS AND INTENTION TO LEAVE

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 75 - 85, 30.08.2023

Gülhan Erkuş Küçükkelepçe , Yasin Çetin

https://doi.org/10.33457/ijhsrp.1281278

Abstract

In order to maintain quality service in healthcare services, the perceived organizational support is believed to affect the conditions such as nurses seeing themselves as a whole with their job, keeping the stressors related to the work environment under control and reducing the number of personnel leaving the job. This descriptive and correlational study investigates the effect of nurses' perceived organizational support on organizational identification, job stress, and intention to leave. The study sample consisted of 226 nurses in Turkiye. Data were collected by 'Personal Information Form', 'Survey of Perceived Organizational Support', 'Organizational Identification Scale' 'A Job Stress Scale-20' and 'Turnover Intention Scale'. Descriptive data, Pearson correlation, and simple linear regression were used to analyze the research data. Perceived organizational support was determined to have a positive moderate relationship with the organizational identification (r=0.437, p<0.01), a strong negative relationship with the job stress (r=-0.636, p<0.01) and a moderate negative relationship with intention to leave (r= -0.517, p<0.01). Perceived organizational support explained 19% of organizational identification, 23% of the job stress, and 17% of the intention to leave (p<0.05). For employees to be able to provide the desired performance following the vision and mission of the organization, it is very important to determine the organizational factors affecting the individual performance of the employees.

Keywords

Nurses, organizational support, organizational identification, job stress, intention to leave

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