Organizational Support and Thriving at Work as Perceived by Nurses in the Affiliated Hospitals of Dali University, the People’s Republic of China
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Organizational Support, Thriving at work, Nurses, ChinaAbstract
Organizational support is an important factor that has been found to have an impact on thriving at work of employees in the People’s Republic of China. The purposes of this study were to examine the level of organizational support and thriving at work as perceived by nurses, and to explore the relationship between organizational support and thriving at work of nurses in the Affiliated Hospitals of Dali University, the People’s Republic of China. Study samples included 266 nurses who were selected from different departments of two Affiliated Hospitals of Dali University, the People’s Republic of China by the proportional stratified random sampling method. Research instruments used in this study were a demographic data form, the Survey of Nurses’ Perceived Organizational Support (SNPOS) and the measure of thriving at work. The reliability of the Survey of Nurses’ Perceived Organizational Support (SNPOS) was 0.92 and the reliability of the measure of thriving at work was 0.81. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Spearman’s rank-order correlation.
The results of the study showed that organizational support as perceived by nurses was at a moderate level ( = 3.48, SD = 0.69), thriving at work as perceived by nurses was at a high level ( = 5.29, SD = 0.81) and there was a positive significant correlation between organizational support and thriving at work (r = .61, p < .01).
The findings of this study could be used by nursing administrators to develop strategies for improving organizational support in order to facilitate thriving at work for nurses in a complex healthcare environment.
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