title: Nurses as implementers of organizational culture.
abstract: Drawing from both theory and case-study data, the role of nurse leaders in implementing constructive organizational cultures is discussed. Constructive cultures create high-performance work environments, increasing both employee and patient satisfaction, and ultimately affecting economic performance. Nursing administrators aspiring to implement a constructive culture should emphasize people-centered values through a collective mission, strategic human resource management practices, and a patient service-oriented philosophy. Furthermore, constructive organizational cultures create successful high-performance work environments when nurses have positive colleague interactions and approach tasks in a manner that helps them experience self-actualization, while at the same time achieving organizational goals.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Lynn Perry
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Wooten
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Crane
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009721:Nurse Midwives / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D009729:Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011247:Pregnancy