Effects of the areas of worklife on job embeddedness: a national cross-sectional study among Egyptian nurses

Abstract

Aim This study aimed to examine the effects of a person–job match in the six areas of worklife on Egyptian nurses’ job embeddedness. Background Healthcare organizations struggle to embed nurses in their job. However, the antecedents of nurses’ job embeddedness are not fully known, especially those related to organizational factors. This study is an initiative to contribute in this field. Methods A national cross-sectional study that enrolled 1003 Egyptian licensed nurses was conducted. Data were collected using an online-based version of the Areas of Worklife Scale and the Global Job Embeddedness Scale and analyzed using the descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and regression analysis. Results Nurses reported a moderate level of job embeddedness with a person–job match in control, reward, and community. Regression analysis showed four of six areas of worklife (value, fairness, community, and control) contributing to nurses’ job embeddedness. Conclusion Nurses who experience a person–job match in the value, fairness, community, and control areas of worklife are more likely to embed in their job. A match in the value area has the great potentials for nurses to embed in their job. Implications for nursing management Actions aimed at embedding nurses should prioritize on optimizing a person–job match in value, fairness, community, and control.

Psychometric Validity of the Areas of Work Life Scale (AWS) in Teachers and Healthcare Workers in México

“…This study could not confirm the original and expected item and dimension structures of the AWS and showed the presence of a method factor associated with reverse-coded items. Like some other previous findings, it observed low AWS dimensions have demonstrated to be consistent predictors of burnout and important targets for prevention in different regions and sectors in recent studies [31][32][33], so the mediational model of burnout, which deals with a model extended to its predictors from the areas of work life, is a modern and promising line of research that needs to be further explored, especially in the post-pandemic times in different cultures [34,35].…”

“…workers, and from a series of staff surveys conducted by authors as a means of assessing the constructs underlying the analysis of the six areas of work life [30]. AWS dimensions have demonstrated to be consistent predictors of burnout and important targets for prevention in different regions and sectors in recent studies [31][32][33], so the mediational model of burnout, which deals with a model extended to its predictors from the areas of work life, is a modern and promising line of research that needs to be further explored, especially in the post-pandemic times in different cultures [34,35].…”

The Effect of Person-Job Fit and Job Embeddedness on a Teacher’s Task Performance

“…ob embeddedness provides a retention-based structure for employees in their institutions, examining why employees remain in their jobs by considering institutional and community factors (Goliroshan et al, 2021). In their research, (El-Gazar et al, 2022) proposed that self-efficacy may be a precursor to the depth of individual job attachment.…”