Leveraging from Supervisor Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Organizational Absorptive Capacity on Nurses’ Innovation

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

2 Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt.

Abstract

Background: Nurses’ innovation is essential to the expansion of healthcare institutions. Therefore, in the modern day, supervisors' knowledge-sharing behaviors and their ability to assimilate new information and technologies are crucial elements that define nurses' inventiveness. The research aimed to analyze leveraging from supervisor knowledge sharing behavior and organizational absorptive capacity on nurses’ innovation. The Research design: a descriptive correlation design. Setting:  The research was conducted on two hospitals at the Minia city. Sample:  A convenience sample (no.= 383). Tools of data collection: Three tools were used, 1st tool was Supervisor Knowledge Sharing Behavior Scale, 2nd tool was Organizational Absorptive Capacity Scale, and the 3rd tool was Nurses’ Innovation Scale Results: Reveals that fifty percent of them nurses are responses for high level of total supervisor knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, above one third of them are responses for high as well as moderate level of organizational absorptive capacity. Also, about thirty of nurses are early adopters, and late majority as well as less one quarter of them are early majority and innovators respectively. Conclusion: There was strongly positive correlation with highly statistical significance variation among supervisor knowledge sharing behavior, organizational absorptive capacity and nurses’ innovation.  Recommendations: Assess periodically the effectiveness of knowledge-sharing practices and absorptive capacity using feedback tools, innovation metrics, and staff satisfaction surveys.

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