Abstract
Objective: The descriptive correlational study aimed to examine the relationships between organizational commitment, supervisory support, and job satisfaction in a public specialized hospital in Bangladesh.Method: Data were collected by using self-administered questionnaires from the random samples of 126 nurses. The questionnaires included organizational commitment questionnaire, supervisory support questionnaire and job satisfaction Survey. The validity of questionnaires was checked by five experts. The validity of the questionnaires on organizational commitment, supervisory support, and job satisfaction were 0.91, 0.85, and 0.89, respectively. The Cronbachs alpha coefficient of the questionnaires were 0.85, 0.85, and 0.82, respectively. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Pearsons product moment correlation statistics.Results: The result of the study showed that nurses perceived a moderate level of organizational commitment (M = 3.57, SD = 0.48), supervisory support (M = 3.9, SD = 0.48), and job satisfaction (M = 4.06, SD = 0.51). There was a moderate positive significant correlation between organizational commitment and job satisfaction (r = 0.32, p < 0.01) and moderate positive significant correlation between supervisory support and job satisfaction (r = 0.26, p < 0.01).Conclusion: The results of this study are helpful for nurse administrator to enhance job satisfaction in context of organizational commitment and supervisory support. Nurse administrator can apply study result to improve nursing knowledge in different aspect of their profession. It might be helpful to enhance the nurses job satisfaction in Bangladesh.Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.15(1) 2016 p.39-43
Highlights
Job satisfaction has an important role to an employee in terms of health and wellbeing
Supervisory support, and job satisfaction The findings of the study revealed that moderate level of organizational commitment
Job satisfaction has a comprehensive phenomenon with multiple factors, including pay, satisfaction, promotional opportunity, supervision, organizational commitment, work environment, training and relationship with job satisfaction[24].The results from the study indicated organizational commitment may be causes of the longer the employees stay with an organization the more time they have to understand the organization and their relationship with it[25]
Summary
Job satisfaction has an important role to an employee in terms of health and wellbeing. Job satisfaction in nursing provides a supportive work environment, and health care facility to achieve better outcomes for nurses, patients, and organizations[1]. Relationships between organizational commitments, supervisory support and job satisfaction of nurses of hospital and it is excellent factors to hospitals due to the critical role that employees play in the provision of healthcare services[7].
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