title: Does performance management affect nurses' well-being?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article focuses on employee performance-management practices in the healthcare sector. We specifically aim to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of employee performance-management practices on affective well-being of nurses in hospitals. Theory suggests that the features of employee-performance management (planning and evaluation of individual performances) predict affective well-being (in this study: job satisfaction and affective commitment).
  
  
  METHODS
  Performance-management planning and evaluation and affective well-being were drawn from a survey of nurses at a Flemish hospital. Separate estimations were performed for different aspects of affective well-being.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Performance planning has a negative effect on job satisfaction of nurses. Both vertical alignment and satisfaction with the employee performance-management system increase the affective well-being of nurses; however, the impact of vertical alignment differs for different aspects of affective well-being (i.e. job satisfaction and affective commitment).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Performance-management planning and evaluation of nurses are associated with attitudinal outcomes. The results indicate that employee performance-management features have different impacts on different aspects of well-being.
authors.affiliation: Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Adelien.Decramer@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Adelien
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Decramer
authors.affiliation: Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Mieke.Audenaert@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Mieke
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Audenaert
authors.affiliation: Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Thomas.VanWaeyenberg@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Van Waeyenberg
authors.affiliation: Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Tine.Claeys@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Tine
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Claeys
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopedagogy, Faculty of Social Work and Welfare Studies, University College Ghent, Voskenslaan 362, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Claudia.Claes@Hogent.be.
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Claes
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Stijn.Vandevelde@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Stijn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vandevelde
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Education, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, H. Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; Arduin Foundation, The Netherlands. Electronic address: JLoon@Arduin.nl.
authors.forename: Jos
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Loon
authors.affiliation: Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address: Saskia.Crucke@Ugent.be.
authors.forename: Saskia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Crucke
mesh_terms: D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital / Q000379:methods; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Affective commitment; Affective well-being; Employee performance management; Job satisfaction; Performance evaluation; Performance management satisfaction; Performance planning; Vertical alignment