The relationships among organization climate, psychological empowerment and job embeddedness

Abstract

Objective To explore the relationships among organization climate,psychological empowerment and job embeddedness by using path analysis.Methods A total of 514 clinical nurses from 26 departments in 3 hospitals were recruited by convenience cluster sampling method and investigated with demography questionnaire,Nurses Organizational Climate Scale,Psychological Empowerment Scale and Job Embeddedness Scale.Results The mean scores of organization climate,psychological empowerment and job embeddedness was (3.01±0.46),(3.27±0.44),(3.08±0.39).The predictors of job embeddedness of nurses were resources support,work experience,human resources management,marital status,job title,management support,quality management,and self-egicacy,explained 48.9％ of its variance; organization climate,psychological empowerment had direct positive influence on nurses' job embeddedness,explained 33.3％ of its variance.Conclusions Improvement and maintenance of sound organizational climate,increase the sense of psychological empowerment of nurses,are effective ways and means to increase the degree of job embedding of nurses. Key words: Organization climate; Psychological empowerment; Job embeddedness; Path analysis