1Department of Nursing, Daejeon Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
2Department of Nursing, Taegu Science University, Republic of Korea
3 Department of Nursing, Joongbu University, Republic of Korea
*Corresponding author: Kawoun Seo, kwseo@joongbu.ac.kr
Online published on 27 March, 2020.
This study was designed to investigate the effects of resilience and authentic leadership on the job embeddedness of staff nurses in Korea.
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. A total of 168 participants with more than 2 years of experience were recruited from staff nurses from a university hospital in D city, Korea. Data analysis included descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multivariate analysis using SPSS 22.0. Two models extracted during the hierarchical regression analysis were tested to determine the predictors of job embeddedness.
The results showed that job embeddedness had a significant positive correlation with resilience and authentic leadership of head nurses. There was also a significant positive correlation between resilience and head nurses’ authentic leadership. In the first model, personal factors such as education level, days off as requested, nurse satisfaction, and salary satisfaction were found to be significant and accounted for 21.1% of the variance. In the second model, where personal factors, resilience, and authentic leadership were entered, nurse satisfaction, salary satisfaction, resilience, and authentic leadership were found to be significant. This final model, which included both personal factors and main variables, accounted for 30.2% of the variance.
In order to increase the job embeddedness of staff nurses, hospitals should try to increase resilience on the personal level and improve the authentic leadership of head nurses.
Nurses, Resilience, Leadership, Job embeddedness, Regression
