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. 2022 May 9:8:23779608221095432.
doi: 10.1177/23779608221095432. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.

Cultivating Innovative Work Behavior of Nurses Through Diversity Climate: The Mediating Role of Job Crafting

Lubaina D Baig  1   2 , Malik F Azeem  1 , Adil Paracha  1
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Cultivating Innovative Work Behavior of Nurses Through Diversity Climate: The Mediating Role of Job Crafting

Lubaina D Baig et al. SAGE Open Nurs. .

Abstract

Introduction: Innovative work behavior of nurses is essential to deliver affordable quality healthcare services. Diversity climate and job crafting are a few of the supportive managerial strategies that can be applied to cultivate the innovative capacity of nurses.

Objective: Aim for the current study is to: (a) examine the role of diversity climate in cultivating innovative work behavior of nurses directly; and (b) indirectly through job crafting.

Methods: For this study data was collected through cross-sectional design employing simple random sampling using structured questionnaires from 283 nurses. Data was analyzed using SPSS.Amos.21.

Results: Results revealed the positive influence of diversity climate on innovative work behavior directly (γ = 0.51, p < .001) and indirectly through job crafting (ρ = 0.235, p < .001).

Conclusion: The current study revealed that diversity climate significantly influences the innovative work behavior of employees directly and indirectly through Job crafting. Healthcare management can integrate diversity management policies and job crafting techniques in their strategies to foster innovative work behavior of nurses.

Keywords: diversity climate; innovative work behavior; job crafting; nurses.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Theoretical framework.
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Factor loadings of constructs.
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Structural model. Note = [DC = Diversity Climate; JC = Job crafting; IB = Innovative Work Behavior; IG = Idea Generation; IP = Idea promotion; II = Idea Implementation].
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