Organizational Culture, Individual Innovation and their relation to Nursing Staff’s Work Engagement

Abstract

Background: Organizational culture supports nursing staff in their organization and significantly improves their individual innovation and work engagement.Aim: Investigating organizational culture, individual innovation and their relation to nursing staff's work engagement. Methods: A descriptive, correlational study design was conducted with a convenient sample of (185) nursing staff at Kafr El Sheikh University Hospital. Data was collected using an Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument, Individual Innovation Scale and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Results: Confirmed that majority of nursing staff have high level of perception about organizational culture, more than half of them had highly innovative level and more than two third of nursing staff have high level of work engagement. There was highly statistically significant positive correlations were found between organizational culture and individual innovation with work engagement. Conclusion: It was concluded that nursing staff at Kafr El Sheikh Hospital had high perception of organizational culture, highly innovative level and had high level of work engagement. Recommendations: The study recommended that incorporate culture in the hospital policy by giving the chance to every staff in the hospital to participate in decision making. Provide training programs about the importance of creativity for enhancing hospital ability and efficiency, and how mangers can use their problem solving styles effectively. Develop a mentorship program where more experienced nursing staff act as models and mentors to the new nursing staff in the profession to empower and motivate them to remain in their work.