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. 2021 Mar;29(2):214-219.
doi: 10.1111/jonm.13141. Epub 2020 Sep 17.

The relationship between nurses' job crafting behaviours and their work engagement

Nadiah A Baghdadi  1 , Sally Mohammed Farghaly Abd-El Aliem  1   2 , Shuruq Khalid Alsayed  3
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The relationship between nurses' job crafting behaviours and their work engagement

Nadiah A Baghdadi et al. J Nurs Manag. 2021 Mar.

Abstract

Aim: To investigate the relationship between job crafting and work engagement among hospital nurses.

Background: Job crafting is a relatively advanced job redesign concept, and few studies have investigated it among nurses.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. A total of 636 nurses were recruited from one hospital in Saudi Arabia. Of them, 608 (95.6%) completed self-administered, online questionnaires. The questionnaire assessed participants' socio-demographic data, job crafting and work engagement. Structured equation modelling (SEM) was used to examine the association between job crafting and work engagement.

Results: Data from 549 nurses were analysed. Most of the participants (85.1%) were females, and their mean scores of job crafting and work engagement were 3.54 ± 0.5 and 4.77 ± 1.1, respectively. The SEM revealed that job crafting accounted for 57% of the variance of work engagement.

Conclusions: Job crafting is a significant determinant of nurses' work engagement.

Implications for nursing management: Supporting staff nurses to employ job crafting behaviours would positively improve their work engagement. This may include, but is not limited to, helping nurses to bargain a significance in their labour, reforming the work pattern in a manner that lines up with organisational objectives and employing an innovative managerial style.

Keywords: job crafting; nurses; structured equation modelling; work engagement.

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