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Leader Empowering Behaviours, Staff Nurse Empowerment and Work Engagement/Burnout

Greco, Paula, Spence Laschinger, Heather, Wong, Carol·2006·Nursing Leadership
DOI 10.12927/cjnl.2006.18599
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Efforts to improve nursing working conditions are critical to retaining nurses currently in the system and attracting newcomers to the profession (Laschinger et al. 2003b). The nurse leader's empowering behaviours can be pivotal in the way nurses react to their work environment. The purpose of this study was to test a model examining the relationship between nurse leaders' empowerment behaviours, perceptions of staff empowerment, areas of work life and work engagement using Kanter's theory of structural power in organizations. A cross-sectional correlational survey design tested the model in a random sample of 322 staff nurses in acute care hospitals across Ontario. Overall, staff nurses perceived their leaders' behaviours to be somewhat empowering and their work environment to be moderately empowering. Fifty-three percent reported severe levels of burnout. Leader empowering behaviour had an indirect effect on emotional exhaustion (burnout) through structural empowerment and overall fit in the six areas of work life. The final model statistics revealed a good fit (chi(2)=30.4, chi=3, chi=0.96, chi=0.95, chi=0.95). These findings suggest that the Leader's empowering behaviours can enhance person-job fit and prevent burnout. These findings have important implications in the current nursing shortage.

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  • Leader empowering behaviour has an indirect effect on Emotional Exhaustion through structural empowerment.

    “‘Leader empowering behaviour’ had an indirect effect on Emotional Exhaustion through structural empowerment [29]”

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  • High scores on the Areas of Worklife Scale (indicating greater job congruence) are associated with less likelihood of burnout (4 out of 4 studies supporting).

    “| Areas of worklife (high score on Areas of Worklife Scale) | √ | √ | | 4 out of 4 |”

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  • Structural empowerment affects Emotional Exhaustion via Areas of Worklife.

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Authors
Greco, P., Spence Laschinger, H., & Wong, C.
Affiliations
Western University (CA)
ORCID
Wong, Carol
Venue
Nursing Leadership
Publisher
Longwoods Publishing
Published
2006-12-15
Volume
19
Issue
4
Pages
41-56
ISSN
  • 1481-9643 (ISSN-L)
  • 1929-6355
DOI
10.12927/cjnl.2006.18599
OpenAlex
W2066145064
Cited by
289
References
2
Citations by year
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FWCI
19.83
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nursing leadership (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Scholarship@Western (Western University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Leadership and Management › Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
Keywords
work engagement, burnout, emotional exhaustion, structural empowerment, person-job fit, nursing shortage, nursing working conditions, acute care nurses
MeSH terms
Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Burnout, Professional, Cross-Sectional Studies, Decision Making, Organizational, Female, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Leadership, Male, Models, Psychological, Motivation, Nurse Administrators, Nursing Staff, Hospital, Ontario, Personnel Loyalty, Power, Psychological, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Organizational Culture, Nursing Administration Research, Nursing Methodology Research, Models, Nursing, Workplace, Nurse's Role

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