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Abstract
Work design characteristics is supportive, effective and social connectedness of staff nurses to the organization, the more staff nurses are engaged in the work, social life of organization, and more interact with team work about organization issues and more likely they are to increase perception toward work design characteristics (Scharp et al., 2023). Work engagement allows them to get more involved intellectually, socially and physically in organization-related activities and lead to staff nurses response to positive organization outcomes including adequate support, positive feedback, and satisfaction with organization environment (El-Guindy et al., 2021).
This study was aimed to identify the relationship between work design characteristics and work engagement.
The research question was is there a relationship between work design characteristics and work engagement among staff nurses?”. A descriptive correlational design was utilized in conducting the study. This study was conducted at Ain Shams University hospital; the hospital included critical and non-critical departments.
The study subjects included using simple random sampling technique from the staff nurses enrolled at the Ain Shams University hospital which affiliated to Ain Shams University. The subjects number was (173) out of (303) staff nurses.
Data were collected by two tools namely: work design questionnaire and Utrecht work engagement scale. The work design characteristics questionnaire (WQD) consisted of two parts. The first prat contained personal and job characteristics of the staff nurses including age, gender, marital status, qualifications, years of experience in nursing, years of experience in current unit and attending training Courses about work design. The second part consisted of 77 items divided into four dimensions: task characteristics (24) items, knowledge characteristics (20) items, social characteristics (19) items, work context (14) items. The second tool Utrecht work engagement scale consisted of (17) items divided into three dimensions: vigor dimension (6), dedication dimension (5), absorption dimension (6).
Results:
The present study revealed the following main results:
More than one third of staff nurses (37.5%) had a moderate level toward perception of work design characteristics.
Less than half of staff nurses (48.6%) had high engagement level.
There was highly statistically significant relation between staff nurses’ total work design from where age, qualifications and attending training courses. While there is statistically significant relation with years of experience in nursing and years of experience in current unit.
There was highly statistically significant relation between staff nurses’ total work engagement from where marital status and gender. While there is statistically significant relation between staff nurses total work engagement and age, scientific qualifications, years of experience in nursing and years of experience in current unit.
There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between total work design characteristics levels and their total work engagement among staff nurses.