Nurturing affective commitment among nurses through perceived organisational support: a moderated-mediation model

This study aims to investigate the role of perceived organisational support (POS) on affective commitment among nursing employees in the private healthcare sector in Bangladesh. The study also examined the mediation of work engagement between POS and affective commitment and the moderation of perceived family support in the relationship between POS and engagement. The study with a survey instrument collected data from 228 nurses employed private hospitals located in Dhaka and Chittagong. This research utilised PLS-SEM approach to analyse data and test proposed hypotheses. The findings reveal that POS directly influenced work engagement and affective commitment, and indirectly via work engagement influenced affective commitment significantly. The results also demonstrated that the positive role of POS on work engagement would be greater when there is a high level of family support than a low level of family support. By integrating the organisational support theory and job-demand resource theory, this study contributes to the existing literature of POS and affective commitment in a developing perspective. The findings help professionals and policy makers to have the mechanism to understand how POS and family support foster work engagement and affective commitment of nursing employees.