The Relationship of Empowerment and Selected Personality Characteristics to Nursing Job Satisfaction

Manojlovich, Milisa; Laschinger, Heather K. Spence

doi:10.1097/00005110-200211000-00006

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“…In a recent study, 43 researchers found that nurses' perceptions of a positive organizational climate were associated with higher odds of BSI, another unexpected relationship. Although previous research has shown the importance of empowerment to nurses' outcomes, 44 our study is the first to try to link workplace empowerment to actual patients' outcomes. VAP may not be a nursing-sensitive outcome, as discussed earlier, and other variables to which VAP may be more sensitive were not included in the study.…”

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Intensive Care Units, Communication Between Nurses and Physicians, and Patients’ Outcomes

Manojlovich

Antonakos

Ronis

2009

American Journal of Critical Care

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Background Various factors in hospitals can adversely affect patients' outcomes, including faulty communication between nurses and physicians. Whether specific communication elements (timeliness, accuracy, openness, understanding) can influence adverse outcomes is unknown. Objectives To determine the relationships between patients' outcomes and (1) nurses' perceptions of elements of communication between nurses and physicians and (2) characteristics of the practice environment. Methods A cross-sectional survey design was used. Information on ventilator-associated pneumonia, bloodstream infection associated with a central catheter, and pressure ulcers was collected from 25 intensive care units in southeastern Michigan. Simultaneously, 462 nurses in those units (response rate, 53.3%) were anonymously surveyed. The Conditions for Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-II and the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index were used to measure characteristics of the practice environment. The Intensive Care Unit Nurse-Physician Questionnaire was used to measure communication between nurses and physicians. Statistical tests included correlation and multiple regression. Analyses were conducted at the unit level. Results Unit response rates varied from 6% to 100%. Together, variability in understanding communication and capacity utilization were predictive of 27% of the variance in ventilator-associated pneumonia. Timeliness of communication was inversely related to pressure ulcers (r = -0.38; P = .06), and workplace empowerment and scores on the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III were positive predictors of ventilator-associated pneumonia (R 2 = 0.36; P = .005). Conclusions Not all elements of communication were related to the selected adverse outcomes. The connection between characteristics of the practice environment at the unit level and adverse outcomes remains elusive.

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Intensive Care Units, Communication Between Nurses and Physicians, and Patients’ Outcomes

Manojlovich

Antonakos

Ronis

2009

American Journal of Critical Care

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“…Employees should be strengthened with ample resources, leadership, encouraging workplace environment, which will in turn have a positive impact on job satisfaction and will results in adequate human force formation (Manojlovich & Laschinger, 2002). Empowerment and satisfaction with management are main predictors of worker's retention.…”

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The Impact of Structural Empowerment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior-Organization and Job Performance: A Mediating Role of Burnout

Jaffery¹,

Farooq²

2015

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The banking sector employees are usually exposed to potential job burnout which impacts their employee performance. This study examined the impact of structural empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior-organization (henceforth, OCBO) and job performance and further examined the mediating effect of job burnout in the relationships of structural empowerment, OCBO and job performance. In this study, data from 282 employees was taken from four banks: both public and private sectors. Two stage sampling technique was carried out to collect data. In the first stage probability cluster sampling and in the second stage convenience sampling was used. Different data analysis techniques like correlation, regression analysis, were used to test the four hypotheses of the study. Findings show that there are strong positive relationships of structural empowerment with OCBO and job performance. It has also proved that job burnout strongly mediates the relationship of structural empowerment and organizational citizenship-behavior (OCBO) and weakly mediates the relationship between structural empowerment and job performance. The findings would help the HR executives of the organizations to formulate future development to combat the burnout and ensure effective overall performance of employees through structurally empowering them.

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“…Management should understand the importance of job involvement because it is most important and essential component of work behavior among the workforce as prior research proved this phenomenon (Manojlovich, Laschinger, & Heather, 2002;Soong, 2000). It was highlighted that by giving employees power over their work content i.e.…”

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Job Involvement as Predictor of Employee Commitment: Evidence from Pakistan

Khan¹,

Jam²,

Akbar³

et al. 2011

IJBM

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Job involvement has been one of the most effective tools used for increasing employee productivity by enhancing employee participation and commitment. This study highlights the effect of job involvement on three types of commitments i.e. affective commitment, Continuance commitment and normative commitment. Data was collected from 211 employees of 11 different organizations and analysis revealed that job involvement has positive impact on three types of commitments.

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The Relationship of Empowerment and Selected Personality Characteristics to Nursing Job Satisfaction

Abstract: Through careful manipulation of the hospital environment, both structural and psychological empowerment can be increased, resulting in greater job and patient satisfaction and, ultimately, improved patient outcomes.

Cited by 157 publications

References 22 publications

Intensive Care Units, Communication Between Nurses and Physicians, and Patients’ Outcomes

Intensive Care Units, Communication Between Nurses and Physicians, and Patients’ Outcomes

The Impact of Structural Empowerment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior-Organization and Job Performance: A Mediating Role of Burnout

Job Involvement as Predictor of Employee Commitment: Evidence from Pakistan

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