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Empowerment, engagement and perceived effectiveness in nursing work environments: does experience matter?
Heather K Spence Laschinger1, Piotr Wilk, Julia Cho
1School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada. hkl@uwo.ca
Journal of Nursing Management
|July 7, 2009
Summary
Empowering work conditions boost nurses
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Organizational Psychology
- Workforce Development
Background:
- Addressing nurse retention is critical due to impending retirements.
- Work environments must attract and retain new nursing talent.
- Professional experience and generational factors influence work behavior.
Purpose of the Study:
- Examine the impact of empowering work conditions on nurses' engagement and effectiveness.
- Compare these relationships between new graduate and experienced nurses.
Main Methods:
- Secondary analysis of survey data from two studies.
- Compared relationship patterns in two groups: nurses ≤2 years post-graduation (n=185) and nurses >2 years experience (n=294).
- Utilized multi-group structural equation modeling (SEM).
Main Results:
- The hypothesized model showed a good fit.
- Work engagement significantly mediated the empowerment-effectiveness relationship in both groups.
- The impact of engagement on work effectiveness was significantly stronger for experienced nurses.
Conclusions:
- Work engagement is a key mediator between empowerment and effectiveness.
- Empowerment's effect on work effectiveness is more pronounced for experienced nurses than new graduates.
- Nursing management should consider differential effects of empowerment on new vs. experienced nurses.
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