title: Correlates of nursing staff survivor responses to hospital restructuring and downsizing.
abstract: This study examines correlates of 4 archetypal survivor responses to organizational restructuring and downsizing proposed by Mishra and Spreitzer: hopeful, obliging, cynical, and fearful. Data were collected from 744 long-term nursing staff survivors of hospital restructuring and downsizing using questionnaires. Three types of correlates were considered: work outcomes, indicators of psychologic well-being, and perceptions of hospital functioning. Greater endorsement of cynical and fearful restructuring responses was associated with more negative work outcomes and lower psychologic well-being. Greater endorsement of both cynical and fearful responses was also found to be associated with more negative perceptions of hospital functioning and effectiveness.
authors.affiliation: Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3.
authors.forename: Ronald J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Burke
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006754:Hospital Restructuring; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009864:Ontario; D015279:Organizational Culture; D020415:Personnel Downsizing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*; D000078329:Workforce; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology