Factors Affecting Innovative Work Behavior of Professional Nurses in Primary Care Units, the Health Region 3
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The purposes of this cross-sectional descriptive study were: (1) to study the transformation leadership, organizational climate for innovation, work engagement, and innovative work behavior as perceived by professional nurses in primary care units in Health Region 3 and (2) to examine the predictive power of factors Affecting innovative work behavior of professional nurses in primary care units. This descriptive research sample included 166 professional nurses who had worked more than one year at primary care units in Health Region 3. The stratified random sampling technique was employed. The research tool was a questionnaire composed of 5 parts: (1) personal factors (2) transformational leadership (3) organizational climate for innovation (4) work engagement and (5) innovative work behavior. When checked for content validity, the content validity indexes of parts 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the questionnaire were obtained as .82, .87, .90 and .88, respectively. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.98. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, chi-square test and stepwise multiple regression. The major findings were as follows. (1) Transformation leadership, organizational climate for innovation, work engagement and innovative work behavior were all at the high level. Finally, (2) Organizational climate for innovation and work engagement influenced and statistically predicted the variances of innovative work behavior of professional nurses at 67.60 percent at the .05 significance level.
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