Title: Mediating effects of nurses work thriving between sense of work gain and proactive innovative behaviors in a tertiary hospital in Henan Province
Abstract:
Background and Objectives: Proactive innovation behaviour means nurses take the initiative to improve and create in their work. A strong sense of work gain can motivate such behaviour, while work thriving—feeling energetic and learning at work—may help explain how this happens. With increasing focus on nursing innovation in China, this study looks at how nurses’ work thriving connects their sense of work gain to their innovation behaviour. The goal is to better understand what drives nurses to innovate and how to support this in practice.
Methods: A total of 2100 clinical nurses from 33 tertiary hospitals in 18 cities belonging to Henan Province were selected by convenience sampling method from September to November 2023 as the study subjects, and were investigated by using the General Information Questionnaire, Proactive Innovative Behavior Scale, Work Thriving Scale, and Employee Sense of Work Gain; the mediating effects were analyzed by using AMOS 25.0 software analysis.
Results: A total of 2085 valid questionnaires were recovered. The scores of nurses' proactive innovative behavior, work thriving, and sense of work gain were (54.07±13.45), (38.93±9.59), and (49.81±12.49), respectively, and the sense of work gain was positively correlated with the proactive innovative behavior, the proactive innovative behavior with work thriving, and the sense of work gain with work thriving (P<0.01). Nurses' work thriving partially mediated between the sense of work gain and proactive innovative behavior, accounting for 45.30% of the total effect.
Conclusions: Nurses' work thriving is a mediating variable between the sense of work gain and proactive innovative behaviors. Nursing managers should adopt various interventions to cultivate nurses' sense of work gain, and then enhance their sense of work thriving, so as to maximize nurses' innovative abilities.
Keywords: Work Thriving, Sense of Work Gain, Proactive Innovative Behavior
