Investigating the Relationship between empowerment climate and Work Engagement of Nurses

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the relationship between empowerment climate and work engagement of nurses. This study is considered as a descriptive-correlation research. The statistical population of this study consists of the nurses in the hospitals of Qom city in 2015. A sample of 130 nurses was selected randomly. Two standardized questionnaires were used for collecting the research data. These include empowerment climate questionnaire of Scott and job engagement questionnaire of Ostrich. The reliability of questionnaires was measured through Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient. The coefficients were 0.90 and 0.95 for empowerment climate   and job engagement questionnaires respectively. Also the validity of questionnaires were investigated through both face and content validities. In order to analyze the research data and test the hypotheses, several statistical methods (including Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Simultaneous Correlation, Simultaneous Regression, One-way Analysis of Variance, and One-sample T-test) were employed in the SPSS18. The findings revealed that empowerment climate   and job engagement of nurses were more than average level. Another part of our findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between empowerment climate and job engagement of nurses. It should be remembered that there are significant relationships among some of the dimensions of empowerment climate (fairness, recognition, and participation) and job engagement of nurses. Based on our findings, empowerment climate (fairness, recognition, communications, and participation) can be considered as a reliable predictors of job engagement of nurses. Based on the results of this study, it is suggested that managers and administrators of hospitals pave the ground for empowerment climate through providing nurses with clarified goals, fairness, recognition and encouragement, team work, morale, participation and communications, and healthy environment. As a result, work engagement of nurses will be improved.