The relationships between organizational culture and thriving at work among nurses: The mediating role of affective commitment and work engagement

作者：Yue Zhai, Shining Cai, Xiao Chen, Wenjuan Zhao, Jingxian Yu, Yuxia Zhang · 发表于：Journal of Advanced Nursing · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1111/jan.15443 · 被引用次数：68 · 研究领域：Nursing education and management、Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues、Resilience and Mental Health

AIM: Guided by the social embeddedness model of thriving at work, this paper explores how nursing organizational culture, work engagement and affective commitment affect nurses' thriving at work. BACKGROUND: Thriving at work has implications for better employee and organization outcomes. The antecedents of thriving at work among the nursing population needs to be expanded by analysing the cross-level impact of organizational and individual characteristics. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used to collect data from 1437 frontline nurses in a tertiary teaching hospital in China between April and May 2020 through an online survey about perceived nursing culture, work engagement, affective commitment and thriving at work. Data were analysed using SPSS, and a structural equation model was established using the PROCESS macro. RESULTS: Our results showed that work engagement and affective commitment mediated the relationship between nurses' perceived nursing culture and their thriving at work. Among nurses, work engagement was positively correlated to affective commitment. CONCLUSION: Our study confirmed the social embeddedness model of thriving at work by showing that both contextual and dispositional factors can influence nurses' thriving at work. Nurse leaders can foster nursing staff's thriving at work by building an inclusive work environment and by providing adequate resources to staff. Future research is needed to elaborate on employee and organizational outcomes associa...