Workplace Spirituality and its Influence on Staff Nurses’ Motivation and Team Effectiveness

Abstract

Background: Workplace spirituality gain positive benefits by developing a humanistic environment that has a positive influence on staff nurses' motivation and team effectiveness for effective nursing care outcomes. Aim of this study: to assess workplace spirituality and its influence on staff nurses' motivation and team effectiveness. Research Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: This study was conducted at all inpatient units at Benha University Hospitals. Subjects: Consisted of 314 staff nurses out from 1461 staff nurses based on a simple random sample. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used for data collection; workplace spirituality questionnaire, staff nurses' motivation questionnaire and team effectiveness questionnaire. Results: Slightly more than two thirds (67.6%) of studied staff nurses had moderate level of workplace spirituality and more than half (56.4%) of them had high level of motivation also more than half (54.1%) of them had high level of teamwork effectiveness. Conclusion: There was a highly statistical significant positive correlation between total workplace spirituality level and total staff nurses' motivation level; also there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total workplace spirituality level and total teamwork effectiveness level. Recommendations: Hospital administrators could maintain workplace spirituality (supportive environment), team effectiveness by motivating staff nurses. Periodic assess staff nurses needs and active listening to them from their supervisors. Staff nurses roles and responsibilities of their work should be clear at the beginning to promote teamwork effectiveness.