title: Workplace empowerment, work engagement and organizational commitment of new graduate nurses.
abstract: As a large cohort of experienced nurses approaches retirement, it is critical to examine factors that will promote the engagement and empowerment of the newer workforce, allowing them to provide high quality patient care. The authors used a predictive, non-experimental survey design to test a theoretical model in a sample of new graduate nurses. More specifically, the relationships among structural empowerment, six areas of work life (conceptualized as antecedents of work engagement), emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment were examined. As predicted, structural empowerment had a direct positive effect on the areas of work life, which in turn had a direct negative effect on emotional exhaustion. Subsequently, emotional exhaustion had a direct negative effect on commitment. Implications of these findings for nursing administrators are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Toronto, ON.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Heather K Spence
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Laschinger
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D009864:Ontario; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012201:Reward; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016526:Workload; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*