Increasing structural and social job resources among nurses The perceived barriers and facilitators
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2022-07-04
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As a consequence of the increasing demand for care due to various causes and the growing shortage of healthcare personnel, the current nursing staff is under strong pressure to solve these problems. Considering this issue, it is crucial to focus on retaining and motivating the current nursing staff and attracting new staff. Job crafting is a strategy that can help nurses to successfully enhance their capacity, manage their workload, adapt tasks to their own preferences and increase their work engagement. However, there may be factors that act as barriers or facilitators to these aspects. The aim of this qualitative study is to identify the perceived barriers and facilitators of increasing structural and social job resources among nurses. This is the result of a comparison between a literature review and the information from 12 semi-structured interviews. Based on a template analysis, several findings were made and new barriers and facilitators emerged from the interviews. Nurses experience a lack of job autonomy, task dependence, unnecessary administrative requirements and work pressure as hindering factors in increasing their structural job resources. However, job autonomy, self-efficacy, and task independence are perceived as facilitating aspects. For increasing social job resources, a lack of the aspects, social support, work engagement, self-awareness and self-reflection, organizational support, and communication are perceived as barriers. Facilitators in this sense are person-job misfit, proactive personality, organizational support, social support, and organizational culture. Nurses acknowledge the barriers and facilitators that emerged from the literature review, but also indicate that they perceive other factors such as workload and organizational culture as significant influences. This research contributes to the literature field on job crafting by indicating that several other factors, in addition to the current literature review, influence the opportunity for nurses to increase their job resources.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen