Effect of Organizational Justices on Creative Self-Efficacy and Innovation of Nurses

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant professor of nursing administration, Faculty of nursing, Beni Suef University, Egypt.

2 Assistant professor of nursing administration, Faculty of nursing, Zagazig University, Egypt

3 Lecturer of nursing administration, faculty of nursing, Helwan University, Egypt.

Abstract

Background: Today, healthcare organizations are challenged to retain nurses' generation and to
maintain justice that is a predictor of nurses' behaviors in their work environment . Nurses are the
most significant and largest human resource of healthcare organization. Research Aims: to assess
the effect of organizational justices on creative self-efficacy and innovation of nurses. Methodology:
Research design A cross sectional research design was utilized at August 2019 - January 2020.
Setting: Beni suef university hospital, fever and chest hospitals at Beni suef government and
zagazig university hospitals & fever and chest hospitals at Zagazig city. Sample: Convenience
sample include the 332 nurses. Tools of data collection: Researcher used tool contains four parts
(Demographic characteristics of nurses, organizational justice, self-efficacy and innovation) Results:
revealed that mean age of studied nurses was 34.11±5.96 years. Also, 52.1%, 56.9% and 55.7% of
studied nurses had moderate level regarding distributive justice, procedural justice and in formational
justice, respectively. Also, stated that educational level, innovation and justice had high frequency
positive effect on self-efficacy scale. While, age and female gender had slight positive effect on
innovation. Conclusions: the current study concluded that more than half of studied nurses had
moderate organizational justice and about one quarter of them had low organizational justice. Also,
more than half of studied nurses had moderate self-efficacy, about quarter of them had low self-
efficacy. In addition more than half of studied nurses had moderate innovation; more than one quarter
of them had low innovation. There was high positive correlation between organizational justice, self-e
fficacy and innovation with p value <0.01**. Recommendation: Continuous educational programs
for nurses about self-efficacy and innovation behavior. Training program for head nurses and
managers about achieving organizational justice among nurses. React positively to the innovative
efforts of production nurses by p rovide nurses the time and resources to carry out innovative efforts

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