Relationship among Job Involvement, Job Enrichment, Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction of Nurses

Abstract

Abstract Job involvement and job enrichment are the steps used to make the employees feeling that the organization is actually owning them and that thing boost their performance on the job. Aims were to study the relationship among job involvement, job enrichment, organizational commitment and job satisfaction of nurses at main Assiut University Hospital & its' relations with nurses age and years of experience, and design a model for the association among study variables. A descriptive correlational study design was used. The study sample consisted of 203 nurses having diploma degree working in various departments of the hospital. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection. It included five parts as the following, nurse’s personal characteristics, job involvement, job enrichment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction questionnaires. Results: Job satisfaction had strong positive statistically significant correlations with job involvement (r=0.664), job enrichment (r=0.537) and commitment (r=0.647). Job involvement, job enrichment and organizational commitment had a negative correlation with nurses' age (r= - 0.176; r= - 0.106; and r= - 0.056) respectively; in-addition job enrichment and organizational commitment had a negative correlation with years of experience (r= -0.068; r= -0.022) respectively. Conclusion Designing a model that shows a positive association among job involvement, job enrichment, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction among nurses. Recommendations: Replication of the study should be done to test the proposed model designed in the present study at different health care settings.