Relationship between nurse psychological empowerment and job satisfaction: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Abstract

The results of this review provided evidence for the importance of psychological empowerment for the job satisfaction of among nurses. Exploring the correlation between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction can provide guidelines and recommendation for the development of strategies to promote nurse retention and alleviate nursing shortage.

Structural empowerment is a strong predictor of organizational commitment in nurses: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…This could be attributed to it being only two studies. Varying populations, sample sizes, backgrounds, organizational systems, and national cultures might be the root cause for the different results obtained (Li et al, ). Furthermore, the inconsistencies in findings may be attributed to the different organizational commitment scales used in the studies.…”

“…In terms of job performance, these can be the actions and behaviours of individuals that contribute to organizational goals (Rotundo, 2002;Wong & Laschinger, 2013). It can relate more to personal effectiveness when increased self-efficacy, high motivation, increased organizational commitment, lowered burnout level, increased autonomy, decreased occupational stress, increased job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and authentic leadership are noted; or more broadly, work effectiveness when achievement and successes, respect and cooperation in the organization alongside client satisfaction take place (Cicolini, Comparcini, & Simonetti, 2014;Cowden & Cummings, 2012;Flinkman et al, 2017;Goedhart et al, 2017;Li et al, 2018;Numminen, Repo, & Leino-Kilpi, 2017;Paplanus, Bartley-Daniele, & Mitra, 2014;Rosser et al, 2017;Saber, 2014;Wong & Laschinger, 2013). Two important aspects of performance we focus on in the present review are organizational commitment and job satisfaction.…”

“…Nurses' job satisfaction has been associated with professional, personal, and organizational variables (Lu, While, & Barriball, 2005) and is moderated by their working environment and personal characteristics (Adams & Bond, 2000). In general, job satisfaction is related to increase retention and is a positive consequence of workplace empowerment (structural or psychological) (Cicolini et al, 2014;Li et al, 2018). Frequently used measurement scales are the Job Satisfaction Scale or the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, with reliabilities over 0.700 and satisfactory factor analysis structures (Li et al, 2018).…”

Factors affecting nurses' job satisfaction in rural and urban acute care settings: A PRISMA systematic review

“…We found several reviews of factors related to nurses’ job satisfaction carried out over the past 20 years (Hayes et al, ; Li et al, ; Lin, Viscardi, & McHugh, ; Lu et al, ; Lu, While, & Louise Barriball, ; Maqbali, ; Utriainen & KyngÄS, ). However, there has been no systematic assessment of the differences and similarities between job satisfaction for nurses practicing in acute care settings in rural and urban areas.…”

Development and validation of Nurse Managers’ Empowering Behavioral Scale for staff nurses

“…Hence, efforts to secure the labour of nurses are essential. Research has associated the enhancement of nurses’ psychological empowerment with higher job satisfaction and lower burnout rate (Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, & Wilk, ; Li et al, ; Meng et al, ). Consequently, these effects reduce nurses’ turnover intention (Hayes et al, ).…”