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Lee and Yom: Role of Self-leadership and Social Support in the Relationship between Job Embeddedness and Job Performance among General Hospital Nurses
Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2015; 21(4): 375-385.

Published online: 30 September 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/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

Hyun Sook Lee1, Young-Hee Yom2

1Graduate School, College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Korea.

2Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Korea.

Corresponding author: Yom, Young-Hee. Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea. Tel: +82-2-820-5700, Fax: +82-2-824-7691, yhyom@cau.ac.kr

Received 21 May 2015       Revised 4 August 2015       Accepted 10 August 2015

Copyright © 2015 Korean Academy of Nursing Administration

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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, Scheffé 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.

Keywords: Nurses, Job embeddedness, Leadership, Social support, Job satisfaction

Figures and Tables

Figure 1

Conceptual framework.

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Table 1

Demographic Characteristics of Participants (N=244)

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Table 2

Differences of Job Performance by General Characteristics (N=244)

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a, b, c, d=Scheffé test.

Table 3

Descriptive Statistics and Correlations among Job Embeddedness, Self-leadership, Social Support, and Job Performance (N=244)

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JE=Job embeddedness; SL=Self-leadership; SS=Social support; JP=Job performance.

Table 4

Summary of Hierarchical Multiple Linear Regression with Job Performance (N=244)

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JE=Job embeddedness; SL=Self-leadership; SS=Social support.

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