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Associations of Organizational Justice and Job Characteristics with Work Engagement Among Nurses in Hospitals in China
Author(s) -
Wan Qiaoqin,
Zhou Weijiao,
Li Zhaoyang,
Shang Shaomei
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.21908
Subject(s) - work engagement , organizational justice , distributive justice , multilevel model , nursing , psychology , china , economic justice , job satisfaction , perception , job performance , social psychology , work (physics) , medicine , organizational commitment , political science , mechanical engineering , machine learning , law , computer science , engineering , neuroscience
ABSTRACT Work engagement of nurses has a great effect on their productivity, patient outcomes, and organizational performance. It is important to explore what can be done to facilitate nurse engagement. In this study, we surveyed a total of 1,065 nurses chosen from seven hospitals in China by random cluster sampling to explore the state of nurse engagement and its associations with organizational justice and job characteristics. The mean score for nurse engagement was 3.5 (SD = 1.5) on a 0–6 scale, and in hierarchical multiple regression analyses we found that nurse engagement had statistically significant relationships with the two organizational justice dimensions of distributive justice ( β = 0.13, p < .01) and informational justice ( β = 0.17, p < .05); and the three job characteristic dimensions of task significance ( β = 0.15, p < .01), job feedback ( β = 0.10, p < .01), and skill variety ( β = .08, p < .05). Hence, work engagement of nurses was not at a high level, and nursing leaders should consider enhancing their engagement through creating motivational job characteristics and improving nurses’ perception of organizational justice.