Purpose: This study examined the mediating effect of grit on the relationships among organizational silence, perceived organizational support, and job embeddedness in hospital nurses. Methods: Overall, 214 nurses were recruited from a tertiary hospita...
Purpose: This study examined the mediating effect of grit on the relationships among organizational silence, perceived organizational support, and job embeddedness in hospital nurses. Methods: Overall, 214 nurses were recruited from a tertiary hospital in Seoul and completed a self-administered questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation analysis. The mediating effect of grit was examined using bootstrapping methods in SPSS Statistics ver. 27.0 and the SPSS PROCESS macro ver. 4.2. Results: Job embeddedness was positively correlated with perceived organizational support (r=.68, p<.001) and grit (r=.42, p<.001), and negatively correlated with organizational silence (r=-.24, p<.001). Grit partially mediated the relationship between organizational silence and job embeddedness (indirect effect=-0.11, 95% bootstrap CI [-0.20, -0.04]), as well as between perceived organizational support and job embeddedness (indirect effect=0.07, 95% bootstrap CI [0.03, 0.12]). Conclusion: Enhancing job embeddedness among hospital nurses requires efforts to improve perceived organizational support and strengthen grit. Therefore, strategies are needed to encourage nurses’active participation in organizational decision-making, engage in leadership development programs, and cultivate grit-related competencies.