Organizational commitment and supervisor support, perception of procedural fairness, tenure in the hospital: The mediating effect of work-life balance - study in nurses

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Maria Manuela Frederico
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.esenfc.pt/?url=GAHM1jI1
• topic: Organizational commitment; Supervisor support; Perception of procedural fairness; Work-life balance; Nurses

Introduction: Background: For nurses, there are particularities concerning the relationship between work and private life. Objective: The objectives of this paper are to examine the association between affective and normative commitment and supervisor support, perception of procedural fairness, tenure in the hospital, and whether or not work-life mediates the association. Methods: Data were collected from our survey to 403 employed nurses in three hospitals, Portugal. We conducted descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, hierarchical regression analysis and mediation tests. Results: The affective and normative commitment was significantly associated with supervisor support; perception of procedural fairness; work-life balance and tenure in the hospital. The observed effect suggested the moderating power of the variable worklife balance in the model. Conclusions: This study provides health sector managers the evidence that supervisor support, perception of procedural fairness and tenure in the hospital, are important factors to have in consideration in nurses' organizational commitment.