Professional Commitment and Perceived Organizational Support Among Nursing Academic Staff: A Comparative Study

Background: Professional Commitment is a concept that attracted a great deal of attention in the workplace for a better understanding of employees attitudes and performance. It helps an academic staff to persist in their profession for long enough to develop specialized skills. The strength of any occupation depends upon the degree of professional commitment of its members. Aim: This research aims to assess the nature of professional commitment among nursing academic staff and examine its relationship with their perceived organizational support at Tanta and Mansoura Nursing Faculties. Methodology: A descriptive analysis was used. The study was conducted on all available nursing academic staff at Tanta and Mansoura Nursing Faculties. The researchers used Tricomponents model of employee commitment scale and perceived organizational support scale. Results: The results revealed that around half of nursing academic staff had unsatisfied at Tanta and very satisfied at Mansoura with perceived organizational support. This research stated that perceived organizational support had a significant relation with professional commitment of nursing academic staff at Tanta and insignificant relation at Mansoura. Conclusion: It is concluded that the nursing academic staff of Nursing Faculty had high level in normative professional commitment at Tanta and had high level in affective professional commitment at Mansoura. Thus, nursing academic staff s experiencing high perceived organizational support differ from nursing academic staffs experiencing low POS. Recommendations: It is recommended for the organization to increase efforts of organizational support through positive and safe work environment, supportive administration, career progression, salary, as well as support from work teams for increasing professional commitment of nursing academic staff.