Cultivating Innovative Work Behavior of Nurses Through Diversity Climate: The Mediating Role of Job Crafting

Abstract

Introduction: Innovative work behavior of nurses is essential to deliver affordable quality healthcare services. Diversity climate and job crafting are a few of the supportive managerial strategies that can be applied to cultivate the innovative capacity of nurses. Objective: Aim for the current study is to: (a) examine the role of diversity climate in cultivating innovative work behavior of nurses directly; and (b) indirectly through job crafting. Methods: For this study data was collected through cross-sectional design employing simple random sampling using structured questionnaires from 283 nurses. Data was analyzed using SPSS.Amos.21. Results: Results revealed the positive influence of diversity climate on innovative work behavior directly (γ = 0.51, p