scholarly journals Factors that influence the quality of worklife of first-line nurse managers in a French Canadian Healthcare system

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Brousseau ◽  
Chantal Cara ◽  
Régis Blais
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
First Line ◽  
Healthcare Administrators

Aim(s): This quantitative study sought to explore the factors that influence positively and negatively the quality of work life (QWL) of first-line nurse managers (FLNMs) among healthcare institutions from a humanistic standpoint.Background: In Canada, the public healthcare reforms have had a considerable impact on FLNMs, which could have a negative effect on the FLNMs’ QWL.Method: A quantitative descriptive design was conducted with FLNMs (n = 291) using a Web online survey to identify the factors that influenced favorably and unfavorably the FLNMs’ QWL. A statistical analysis (SPSS software, version 22 for Windows 7) of Quebec’s French Web survey questionnaire highlight was used to conduct this descriptive study.Results: The quantitative results show some significant connections between socio-demographic characteristics, such as age and years of experience, and the choice of factors that affect QWL of FLNMs . The most important favourable factors were the actualization of leadership and political skills to improve quality of nursing, the contextual elements conducive to organizational humanization and the organizational support promoting personal and socioprofessional fulfillment. On the opposite, the main unfavourable factors were the organizational dehumanization, the undesirable working conditions in nursing management and the insufficient coaching of novice nurse managers.Conclusion: Healthcare organizations should develop a QWL program and policies to provide information on nursing management humanistic practices. These findings enable us to provide recommendations in the fourth domains of nursing practice.Implications for nursing management: Healthcare administrators must consider strategies to maximize the QWL of the next generation of FLNMs in healthcare institutions.

Ethical problems in nursing management

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 646-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Aitamaa ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Silja Iltanen ◽  
Riitta Suhonen
Keyword(s):  
Nurse Managers ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
New Information ◽  
Ethical Approval ◽  
Organization Ethics

Background: Nurse managers have responsibilities relating to the quality of care, the welfare of the staff and running of the organization. Ethics plays significant role in these responsibilities. Ethical problems are part of daily management, but research in this area is limited. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify and describe ethical problems nurse managers encounter in their work to get more detailed and extensive view of these problems. Methods: The data consisted of nine interviews with nurse managers at different management levels in primary healthcare and specialized healthcare organizations, and it was analysed by inductive content analysis. Ethical considerations: Permission to conduct the interviews including ethical approval was given at all participating organizations according to national standards. The respondents were informed about the aim of the study, and voluntary participation, anonymous response and confidentiality were explained to them. Findings: Four main categories were found: conflicts in practical situations, lack of appreciation, disregard of problems and experienced inadequacy. Problems could also be divided to patient-related, staff-related, organization-related and other problems. Discussion: The findings correspond with results from earlier studies but add knowledge of the nature and details of nurse managers’ ethical problems. New information is produced related to the ethical problems with nurse managers’ own courage, motivation and values. Conclusion: Nurse managers identified a variety of different ethical problems in their work. This information is useful in the development of ethics in nursing management. Further research about the frequency and intensity of nurse managers’ ethical problems is needed as well as possible differences in different levels of management.

scholarly journals Experiential meaning of a decent quality of work life for nurse managers in a university hospital

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Brousseau ◽  
Chantal M. Cara ◽  
Régis Blais
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Work Life ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Political Skills ◽  
Experiential Meaning

Objective: Successive reorganizations of healthcare system around the globe have placed enormous pressure on the work of nurse managers (NMs) and this has eroded their quality of work life (QWL). However, little is known about the meaning of NMs’ QWL.Aim: Inspired by Watson’s Human Caring Science perspective, this study aimed to describe and understand the meaning of QWL among NMs working in a affiliated-university hospital.Methods: A descriptive phenomenological method the Relational Caring Inquiry (RCI) was conducted to describe and understand the experiential meaning of QWL. This qualitative method was used to collect and analyze data from two semi-structured interviews with 14 NMs in an affiliated-university hospital in Quebec, Canada.Results: The results have identified the following five Eidos themes to describe and understand the experiential meaning of QWL: (1) actualizing leadership and political skills to improve the quality of nursing care; (2) contextual elements conducive to humanization of the organization; (3) organizational support promoting socioprofessional and personal fulfillment; (4) learning culture within the organization to encourage the development of nursing management skills; and (5) personalized support addressing the specific needs of new NMs. For NMs, the essence of the QWL experience is defined as a socioprofessional emancipation of NMs in their clinical-administrative practice in humanist organizations.Conclusions: Taking an organizational humanization perspective, the results reveal sustainable and practical potential strategies aimed at optimizing QWL implementation programs.

scholarly journals Quality of Work Life: A Significant Dimension of Non-Financial Compensation or Managers’ Tool to Generate Reciprocity

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Ahmed Shahzad ◽  
Valliapan Raju ◽  
Muhammad Farrukh ◽  
Nagina Kanwal ◽  
Muhammad Ikram
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Big Ten ◽  
Financial Compensation ◽  
Primary Level ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Support Theory

With an aim to test reciprocity between non-financial elements of compensation and productivity outcomes, in the presence of perception about organizational support theory, Data had been collected at primary level by a questionnaire, from a sample of 525 banking professionals from big ten Pakistani banks, and same had been analyzed by smartPLS. Results showed that all relationships among study variables are highly responsive to the perception about organizational support. Quality of work life creates reciprocity with employee performance but their magnitudes get affected where practioners need to pay specific attention on employee perception about organizational support.

scholarly journals PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT, KARAKTERISTIK TIM, QUALITY OF WORK LIFE DAN KOMITMEN ORGANISASI: STUDI PADA PEGAWAI UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Heru Santosa
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Direct Effect ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
State University ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Team Characteristics

The objective of this research was to obtain information concerning the effect of perceived organizational support, team characteristics and quality of work life toward employee organizational commitment at the State University of Jakarta by using a survey method with path analysis applied in testing hypothesis. It involved 64 employee at the State University of Jakarta as respondent who were selected by simple random sampling. This research findings were as follows (1) there was a direct effect of perceived organizational support toward organizational commitment; (2) there was a direct effect of team characteristics toward organizational commitment; (3) there was a direct effect of quality of work life toward organizational commitment; (4) there was a direct effect of perceived organizational support toward quality of work life; (5) there was a direct effect of team characteristics toward quality of work life. Therefore, organizational commitment could be improving by rising the effect of perceived organizational support, team characteristics and quality of work life.  

scholarly journals Pengaruh servant leadership terhadap quality of work life pada karyawan generasi milenial

Cognicia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Baiq Widya Ayu Ardiyanti ◽  
Nida Hasanati ◽  
Adhyatman Prabowo
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Millennial Generation ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Life Scale

Indonesia is entering a demographic surplus era where millennial generation employees occupy most of the existing work opportunities. When the organization pays attention to and fulfills the needs of millennial generation employees, this arguably will prosper the employees so that their quality of work life can be realized. Organizational support provided by leaders who try to prioritize common interests over personal interests or servant leadership is one of the things that creates employees’ welfare because the employees’ needs are met. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of servant leadership on the quality of work life of millennial generation employees. This study used quantitative methods with the sampling technique employed is using total sampling with the number of subjects in this are 96 people at BUMN X in West Nusa Tenggara. The data collection method used the servant leadership scale of 18 items and the quality of work life scale of 34 items. Data analysis used the simple linear regression technique. The results showed that there was a significant positive effect of servant leadership on the quality of work life. Servant leadership has an effect of 48.6% on the quality of work life for millennial generation employees (F = 88.893, p = 0.000, = 0.486).

scholarly journals Evaluation of the High human quality innovative potential in the framework of the establishment project of the Constantine 3 University

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Nedjoua Bouarroudj
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Academic Environments ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Innovative Potential ◽  
Human Quality ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
The University

Purpose of the study: The quality of work-life focuses on everyone's attention. This innovative concept led us to look for appropriate ways to put it into practice in academic environments, particularly within the University of Constantine 3 in Algeria's teaching community and to which we are affiliated. Methodology: An online survey has been conducted for the attainment of the purpose. It has collected the lecturer’s satisfaction levels with their framework and working conditions. The researcher, therefore, targeted two groups of respondents to obtain the most varied possible feedbacks. The first group came from a social branch and the second from a technical one. A questionnaire was sent to both groups Main Findings: Results were cross-referenced with the objectives of the 2020-2024 establishment project initiated by the same University. The latter wants to prioritize wellbeing, improve the framework and means available to teachers. These cross-referenced elements have revealed a great concordance between the teachers' expectations and the University’s undertaken project. This shows promising prospects for the realization of high human quality. Applications of the study: The study is a perfect recommendation to emphasize the pre-eminence of High Human Quality HHQ in universities and make its economic, social, and environmental interest prevail for more sustainable, more competitive, and more attractive university spaces... Novelty/Originality of the study: Participating in these ongoing reflections allows us to make our reflections even more engaging. The human capital becomes then the essential element on which this research focuses: It is a question of searching for the probable reasons for its unproductivity and working to make it the instigator of the HHQ Label within the University.

scholarly journals Nurses empowerment at primary health care centers and its relation with quality of work life

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Fatma Rushdy Mohamed ◽  
Safaa Rashad Mahmoud ◽  
Karima Hosny Abdel Hafez ◽  
Thorea Mohamed Mahmoud
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Nurse Managers ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Centers ◽  
Health Care Centers

Background and objective: Nurses in primary health care are a considerable group of professionals working in the health sector and an adequate quality of working life will empower them to provide favorable quality care to their clients. Further, a better quality of working life can keep the employees focused and support them to strive effectively towards the organization’s vision. The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between nurses' empowerment and quality of work life at primary health care centers in Assiut City.Methods: This study was conducted in a descriptive correlated manner; the population consisted of the Assiut city primary health care centers nursing staff (n = 85). Self-administered questionnaire consisted of three parts: 1st part-Personal characteristics data questionnaire, 2nd part-Work Empowerment Promoting Factors Scale, and 3rd part: Quality of Nurses' Work Life questionnaire.Results: There were significant negative correlations between quality of work life and empowerment factors among studied nurses.Conclusions and recommendations: Workshops on the quality of work life skills for nurses and nurse managers should be done periodically, nurse managers in MCH centers should provide nurses by sufficient information, guide and resources, Nurses in primary health centers have to remain allowed to participate in decision making process to empower them, as like properly as growing theirs effect on autonomy, and First line nurse managers should periodically have nursing group meeting to verbalized, vitalize and support peer and social interaction.

Nursing management challenges: Effect of quality of work life on depersonalization

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Yukthamarani Permarupan ◽  
Abdullah Al Mamun ◽  
Naeem Hayat ◽  
Roselina Ahmad Saufi ◽  
Naresh Kumar Samy
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Quality Of Work

scholarly journals Organizational Support in Healthcare Redesign Education: A Mixed-Methods Exploratory Study of Expert Coach and Executive Sponsor Experiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter J. Van Dam ◽  
Phoebe Griffin ◽  
Gregory M. Peterson ◽  
Nicole S. Reeves ◽  
Lea Kirkwood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Improvement Interventions ◽  
Competing Priorities ◽  
Workforce Needs

Healthcare organizations must continue to improve services to meet the rising demand and patient expectations. For this to occur, the health workforce needs to have knowledge and skills to design, implement, and evaluate service improvement interventions. Studies have shown that effective training in health service improvement and redesign combines didactic education with experiential project-based learning and on-the-ground coaching. Project-based learning requires organizational support and oversight, generally through executive sponsorship. A mixed-methods approach, comprising online surveys and semi-structured interviews, was used to explore the experiences of expert coaches and executive sponsors as key facilitators of workplace-based projects undertaken during an Australian postgraduate healthcare redesign course. Fifteen (54%) expert coaches and 37 (20%) executive sponsors completed the online survey. Ten expert coaches and six executive sponsors participated in interviews. The survey data revealed overall positive experiences for coaches and mixed experiences for sponsors. Interview participants expressed a sense of fulfillment that came from working with project teams to deliver a successful project and educational outcomes. However, concerns were raised about adequate resourcing, organizational recognition, competing priorities, and the skills required to effectively coach and sponsor. Expert coaches and executive sponsors sometimes felt under-valued and may benefit from cohort-tailored and evidence-based professional development.

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