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 Volume 8, Issue 6 (June 2021), Pages: 79-87

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Effect of Saudi nurses’ perceived work-life quality on work engagement and organizational commitment

 Author(s): Farida Mahmoud Hassona 1, *, Hamdan Albaqawi 2, Vivian Laput 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
 2Faculty of Nursing, Ha’il University, Ha’il, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9345-548X

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.06.009

 Abstract:

The nurse faculty at the University of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia is responsible for academic and in-service education for nursing discipline and for staff and organizational research. They are considered critical players in assuring quality educational experiences that prepare the nursing workforce for a diverse, ever-changing health care environment. Nowadays, Ha’il University is seeking accreditation, which includes evidence that the working environment is appropriate for both students and the teaching staff. Also, managements in public higher education institutions recently have utilized quality of work-life as a tool for attracting and retaining talented academic staff.  Because with having quality of work-life commitment and loyalty of the employees created to its potential. Thus the aim of this study is to test the mediating effect of quality of work-life on the relationship between work engagement and organizational commitment among academic nursing staff at Ha’il University. Measures were the quality of the work-life scale, the short form of the Utrecht work engagement scale, and an organizational commitment questionnaire. The results indicated that the academic nursing staff had satisfactory levels of work-life quality (3.56±0.62) and high work engagement (4.76±1.12) and a positive organizational commitment result (3.09±0.22). A correlation was found between quality of work-life and organizational commitment. However, there was neither a significant relationship between quality of work-life and work engagement nor was there between work engagement and organizational commitment. The conclusion was therefore that quality of work-life does not mediate the work engagement and organizational commitment relationship. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Quality of work-life in Saudi Arabia, Work engagement, Organizational commitment, Nurse faculty

 Article History: Received 11 November 2020, Received in revised form 19 February 2021, Accepted 24 February 2021

 Acknowledgment 

No Acknowledgment.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical considerations

Approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Scientific Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Nursing–Ha’il University and from the dean of the faculty. Those who agreed to undertake the study were informed that their participation was voluntary and anonymity was assured. Consent was established as a foreword for the questionnaire.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Hassona FM, Albaqawi H, and Laput V (2021). Effect of Saudi nurses’ perceived work-life quality on work engagement and organizational commitment. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(6): 79-87

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