Job satisfaction, work excitement and social climate factors influencing nurses' intent to stay

The primary purpose of this research was to identify factors influencing a nurse's intent to stay. The theoretical framework was March and Simon's Theory of Participation. This research incorporated organizational tenure and the work-related factors of social climate, work excitement, work frustration and job satisfaction as factors likely to predict intent to stay. Social climate was measured using a researcher modified version of Moos' Work Environment Scale (WES;Results indicated that job satisfaction was the strongest, direct predictor of intent to stay (r =.319). Social climate and organizational tenure also directly affected intent to stay, but to a lesser extent. Social climate provided a strong indirect effect on intent to stay through the variable of job satisfaction (r =.418), but its direct effect on intent to stay was weaker (r =.237). Organizational tenure had indirect effects on intent to stay through the variables of work excitement and work frustration. In addition, work excitement and work frustration interact with job satisfaction in this model to indirectly affect intent to stay. All path coefficients were significant and the total explained variance for this model was 38%. In essence, this research demonstrated that the direct positive relationship between job satisfaction and intent to stay is important, but the interaction effects of social climate (R...