Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, and Organizational Support On Job Performance and Turnover Intention in Healthcare Workers
Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, and Organizational Support On Job Performance and Turnover Intention in Healthcare Workers
Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, and Organizational Support On Job Performance and Turnover Intention in Healthcare Workers
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Cite this article as: Gün İ, Söyük S, Özsarı SH. Effects of Job Satisfaction, Affective Commitment, and Organizational Support on Job Performance
and Turnover Intention in Healthcare Workers. Arch Health Sci Res. 2021;8(2):89-95.
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ABSTRACT
Objective: In this study, we investigated the effects of job satisfaction, affective commitment, and organizational support on job performance and
turnover intention in healthcare workers.
Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in training and research hospitals in the Beyoğlu region of İstanbul. In this study,
we used the convenience sampling method. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the relationships between variables. The validity
and reliability of the scales were performed by confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients.
Results: According to the results, the model fit the data well. The χ2/df value of the data was 2.84. The Goodness of Fit Index was 0.90, and the
normed fit index is 0.92. Tucker and Lewis Index was 0.94. Job satisfaction and affective commitment had an effect on job performance (P < .05);
and job satisfaction, emotional commitment, and job performance had an effect on turnover intention (P < .05).
Conclusion: Job satisfaction and affective commitment had a positive and significant effect on job performance and there was a negative and
significant effect on turnover intention (P < .05). In addition, job performance had a significant negative effect on turnover intention. Increase in
job performance and decrease in turnover intention could be possible with satisfaction, commitment, and support.
Keywords: Affective commitment, job performance, job satisfaction, organizational support, turnover intention
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Amaç: Bu çalışma sağlık çalışanlarında iş tatmini, duygusal bağlılık ve örgütsel desteğin iş performansı ve işten ayrılma niyeti üzerine etkisini
araştırmaktadır.
Gereç ve Yöntem: Kesitsel olarak planlanan bu araştırma İstanbul Beyoğlu bölgesinde yer alan eğitim araştırma hastanelerinde gerçekleştir-
ilmiştir. Kolayda örnekleme yönteminin kullanıldığı bu araştırmada verilerin analizi yapısal eşitlik modeli ile (SEM) incelenmiştir. Geçerlilik ve
güvenilirlik analizleri doğrulayıcı faktör analizi ve Cronbach's Alpha katsayısı ile incelenmiştir.
Bulgular: Araştırma bulguları incelendiğinde verilerin modelle uyumunun oldukça iyi düzeyde olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Modelin, χ2/df değeri 2.84.
İyilik Uyum İndeksi (Goodness of Fit Index, GFI) 0.90. Normlaştırılmış Uyum İndeksi (Normed Fit Index, NFI): 0.92. Tucker & Lewis İndeksi 0.94
olarak bulunmuştur. İş tatmini ve duygusal bağlılık iş performansı üzerinde olumlu bir etkiye sahiptir (P < ,05). Ayrıca iş tatmini, duygusal bağlılık
ve iş performansı da işten ayrılma niyeti üzerinde anlamlı bir etkiye sahiptir (P < ,05).
Sonuç: İş tatmini ve duygusal bağlılık, iş performansı üzerinde olumlu ve anlamlı bir etkiye sahipken işten ayrılma niyeti üzerindeki etkisi anlamlı
ve negative yönlüdür. İş tatmini ve duygusal bağlılık arttıkça iş performansı artmakta ve işten ayrılma niyeti azalmaktadır.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Duygusal bağlılık, iş performansı, iş tatmini, örgütsel destek, işten ayrılma niyeti
Address for Correspondence: Selma SÖYÜK, Department of Health Management, İstanbul University-
Cerrahpaşa, Faculty of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Turkey, selmasoyuk@hotmail.com
Received: April 5, 2021
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Accepted: April 14, 2021
Arch Health Sci Res. 2021;8(2): 89-95
Job satisfaction could be defined as “how people feel about According to the organizational support theory, employees
their jobs and different aspects of their jobs. It is the extent form a general perception of the extent to which the organi-
to which people like or dislike their jobs.” Job satisfaction is zation values their contributions and cares about their well-be-
a subjective judgment, and it is about how work that will be ing. Hence, experiencing perceived organizational support
done responds to expectations, organizational characteristics, expresses employee belief that they are on their side of the
and working conditions.9 organization.20
High levels of stress, anxiety, and depression can be seen in The close relationship between job performance and job
healthcare workers, especially in doctors and nurses. They are satisfaction has been known for a long time. Furthermore,
also more exposed to the psychosocial and biological effects job satisfaction is a key issue for healthcare professionals
of stress than people in other professions.10 Therefore, job around the world.6 Job performance studies are frequently
Gün et al. Performance and Turnover Intention in Healthcare
One of the major factors of healthcare worker shortage is turn- and was developed by Meyer et al.30 in 1993. The Perceived
over.23 Employee turnover, which is one of the main concerns Organizational Support Scale developed by Chiang and Hsieh31
for employers, is an organizational problem. Nurse turnover, in was used in this study. The Job Performance Scale also devel-
particular, causes staff shortages, adversely affecting the qual- oped by Chiang and Hsieh31 was used in our study. The Turn-
ity of nursing care, patient safety, and is a factor that increases over Intention Scale validated by Nadiri and Tanova32 was used
the training cost of new nurses.24,25 Therefore, it attracts the in our study.
attention of both the field and theoretically the researchers. 91
Statistical analysis
According to Perreira et al.,16 “turnover intention is defined as a
The validity and reliability of the scales used in the study were
conscious and deliberate willingness to leave the organization.”
analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Cronbach’s
In another definition, it is defined as the probability of employ-
alpha coefficients. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was
ees leaving their current jobs.26
used to test the hypotheses. In the analysis phase, a 2-step path
The current balance between supply and demand of healthcare proposed in the literature.31 In the first step, CFA was used to
professionals highlights a global problem of continuous brain validate the scales, and then SEM was used to test the relation-
drain. Till 2013, the worldwide shortage of healthcare workers ships in the established hypotheses. At this stage, the appropri-
(including physicians, nurses, and midwives) was estimated at ateness of the research data to the normal distribution from
7.2 million and is expected to rise to 12.9 million by 2035.27 the assumptions of the structural equation model was tested.
Turnover studies show that employee turnover, especially of Skewness and kurtosis values of each substance were examined
nurses, doctors, hospital managers, etc., causes remarkable and found to be suitable for normal distribution. In the study,
costs to healthcare organizations.5 Employee turnover is expen- the effect of exogenous variables (job satisfaction, emotional
sive because it leads to high costs such as recruitment costs, commitment, and organizational support) on endogenous vari-
training costs, and separation costs.28 ables (job performance and turnover intention) was examined
with the structural equation model. In the last hypothesis of
Material and Methods the study, the effect of job performance on turnover intention
was investigated. The hypotheses examining effects between
In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of job sat-
the variables are presented in Figure 1. The study hypotheses
isfaction, affective commitment, and organizational support
are as follows:
on job performance and turnover intention. Ethics committee
approval, number 191486 from İstanbul University Social Sci- H1: Job satisfaction has a positive effect on job performance.
ences and Humanities Research Ethics Committee in May 05, H2: Affective commitment has a positive effect on job perfor-
2017, was obtained. The study was planned as a cross-section- mance.
al study and was carried out in educational research hospitals H3: Organizational support has a positive effect on job perfor-
that have similar characteristics and units located in Beyoğlu, mance.
Istanbul. After the incomplete questionnaire forms were elim- H4: Job satisfaction has a negative effect on turnover intention
inated, responses from 442 healthcare workers were included H5: Emotional commitment has a negative effect on turnover
in the analysis. The convenience sampling method was used intention
in this study. H6: Organizational support has a negative effect on turnover
intention
Data collection
H7: Job performance has a negative effect on turnover inten-
A questionnaire form was used as the data collection tool.
tion
This form consisted of job satisfaction, affective commitment,
organizational support, job performance, and turnover inten- Results
tion scales and demographic variable sections. All scales were
5-point Likert type. After missing answers and outliers were Demographic data of the participants are given in Table 1. Ac-
eliminated, 442 questionnaire forms were analyzed. The Job cording to this, 33.8% of the participants were between 18 and
Satisfaction Scale developed by Luthans, F., Avolio, B. J., Avey, 30 years, 32.7% were between 31 and 38 years, and 33.5% were
J. B., and Norman, S. M.; and the short form created by Çınar29 between 39 and 60 years. Of the participants, 66.7% were wom-
was used. The Affective Commitment Scale consisted of 6 items en, and 33.8% had undergraduate and 17.6% had graduate
Arch Health Sci Res. 2021;8(2): 89-95
education. Most of the participants were nurses in our study Factor loads of the Job Satisfaction Scale ranged from 0.55 to
(38.7%). Most of the participants were working only during the 0.82. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.75. Factor loads of
day (66.1%) and 32% were working in shifts. the Affective Commitment scale were between 0.73 and 0.81,
and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was 0.86. Factor loads of Or-
Table 2 contains the names of the scales, scale expressions, ganizational Support were between 0.81–0.92, and reliability
Cronbach’s alpha values, factor loads, means, and standard coefficient was found to be 0.93. Factor loads of the Job Per-
deviations of the scales. According to CFA results, all variable formance and Turnover Intention scales were 0.71 to 0.82 and
loadings were found significant at P < .01. 0.71 to 0.97, respectively; and Cronbach’s alpha values were
0.88 for both (Table 2). All factor loadings were significant at P
Table 1. Demographic Characteristics of Sample (n=422) < .001 and ranged from 0.55 to 0.92, which indicates that each
Demographic characteristics Frequency Percent indicator reflected the constructs they intended to measure.
Age (n=379), years The Cronbach’s alpha reliability values for the three latent con-
18–30 128 33.8 structs range from 0.75 to 0.93, which exceed the acceptable
31–38 124 32.7 levels of 0.70 Therefore, the measures show acceptable reliabil-
39–60 127 33.5 ity. In addition, all indicator variable loadings were significant
Sex (n=396) at P < .001.
Female 264 66.7
According to the findings, c2/df value was 2.84. The Goodness
92 Male 132 33.3
of Fit Index was 0.90, and the normed fit index was 0.92. The
Education (n=391) Tucker and Lewis Index was 0.94. The comparative fit index is
Other 190 48.6 0.95, and the root mean square error of approximation was
Bachelor 132 33.8 0.06 (Table 3). These test results show that the model fits the
Graduate 69 17.6 data well.
Occupation (n=385)
Doctor 56 14.5 According to the SEM results, the hypothesis that job satis-
Nurse 149 38.7 faction has a positive effect on job performance is supported
Other 180 46.8 (β=0.27, P < .01). Job satisfaction has a positive effect on job
Manner of work (n=381) performance, and job performance increases as job satisfaction
Day 252 66.1 increases (hypothesis 1 supported).
Night 7 1.8 Hypothesis 2 test results showed that affective commitment
Shift 122 32.0 had a positive effect on job performance (β=0.18, P < .05).
Table 2. Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficients, Factor Loads, Means and Standard Deviations of Variables
Variables Items Cronbach’s alpha Factor loads Mean SD
Satisfaction Generally, I am very satisfied with my job. 0.750 0.827 3.55 1.09
Generally satisfied with the qualification and content of 0.796 3.43 1.09
the jobs my position requires.
Most of staff are satisfied with their job in my hospital. 0.555 2.94 1.11
Affective I would be very happy to spend the rest of my career in 0.865 0.765 3.24 1.25
commitment this hospital.
I really feel as if this hospital’s problems are my own. 0.818 3.30 1.24
I feel like a “part of my family” at this hospital. 0.733 3.37 1.19
This hospital has a great deal of personal meaning for me. 0.808 3.16 1.24
I feel a strong sense of belonging to this hospital. 0.767 3.43 1.20
Emotional My hospital cares about my opinion 0.932 0.858 3.09 1.16
support My hospital really cares about my well-being. 0.920 3.09 1.20
My hospital strongly considers my goals and values. 0.923 3.10 1.16
Help is available from my hospital when I have a problem. 0.819 3.27 1.14
Job I fulfill specific job responsibilities 0.888 0.756 4.36 0.74
performance I meet performance standards and expectations. 0.822 4.17 0.86
My performance level is satisfactory. 0.808 4.13 0.89
I am effective in my job. 0.821 4.24 0.81
I produce high-quality work. 0.719 4.25 0.79
Turnover Often thought of quitting. 0.881 0.719 2.65 1.25
intention Looking for a new job next year probably. 0.976 2.24 1.14
Leaving the job next year. 0.866 2.22 1.15
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation
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