Factors Influencing Innovation Performance in Nursing Organizations as Perceived by Head Nurses of Community Hospitals under the Ministry of Public Health
Keywords:
innovation performance, influencing factors, head nurses, community hospitalsAbstract
Innovation performance is one of the most important for an organization to have competitive advantage. The objective of this analytical research was to investigate factors influencing innovation performance in nursing organizations. The subjects of the study were 305 head nurses of community hospitals under the Ministry of Public Health; the sample size was calculated using Krejcie & Morgan formula. The research instrument was a 5-point rating scale questionnaire consisting of 5 parts: personal factors, team factors, organizational factors, environmental factors and innovation performance. The questionnaire was validated in terms of content by five experts and the content validity index (CVI) was between 0.95-1.00 and for the reliability, Cronbach’s coefficient alpha was 0.90, 0.95, 0.93, 0.93. Then, data were analyzed with descriptive statistics and hierarchical multiple regression. The study found that the innovation performance in nursing organizations was at a high level (Mean= 3.51,
SD. = 0.70) while personal factors could help predict 7 percent (R2 = 0.07, F = 5.11) of innovation performance of the nursing organizations; team factors could predict 46 percent (R2 = 0.46, F = 32.18) to increase 39 percent ( R2 = 0.39) ; organizational factors could predict 66 percent (R2 = 0.66, F = 49.44) to increase 20 percent (R2 = 0.20) of the innovation performance, and environmental factors could predict 68 percent of the innovation performance (R2 = 0.68, F = 45.59) to increase 2 percent ( R2 = 0.02) at a statistical significance level (p<0.05). When considering the sub-variables of each factor, it was found that the sub-variables influencing innovation performance of nursing organizations were innovation
experience (β = 0.11), innovation training (β =0.20), team planning (β =0.62), hospital size (β = 0.08), eadership behavior (β = 0.30), innovation climate (β = 0.36), and use of technology and information (β =0.19). The predictive equation was Y (innovation performance) = 0.80+0.16 (innovation experience) + 0.26 (innovation training) + 0.44 (team innovation planning) + 0.15 (hospital size) + 0.25 (leadership behavior)
+ 0.32 (innovation climate) +0.27 (technology and information). Thus, the body of knowledge resulting from this study could be utilized by nursing organization administrators by using these factors to drive innovation performance of nursing organizations to achieve organizational goals with more efficiency and effectiveness.
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