PURPOSE Flexibility is an essential ingredient of person-centered care. We illustrate the potential impact of flexibility by portraying a nursing home that uses flexibility in its approach to residents and staff members. DESIGNS AND METHODS The paper describes the management strategies, principles, and environmental features used by the Adards nursing home in Australia. RESULTS Adards' flex...

Retention of nurses is essential to manage turnover costs and nursing shortages. An area that has remained relatively unstudied is the impact and success of inpatient nursing mergers. A single site qualitative descriptive triangulated case study research design was developed to explore the overarching strategy in an intra-hospital merger of clinical units that included leadership tactics and st...

In a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review,Miles D. White posits that leaders keep their organizations relevant and high-performing by heeding the “reinvention imperative” (White, 2013). He delineates two elements of reinvention: separating important and enduring trends from the shortlived and ultimately irrelevant, and deciding to take short-term “hits” (declines) in performance in order...

AIM To report a study exploring prospective relations between nurses' perceived work ability and three forms of turnover intentions, respectively, intent to leave the ward, organization and profession. BACKGROUND Turnover of nursing staff is a major challenge for healthcare settings and for healthcare in general, urging the need to improve retention. DESIGN Survey. METHODS Based on the lo...

Aim To investigate how distributed leadership via the Shared Governance programme influences employee engagement, empowerment, job satisfaction and turnover intentions among direct care nursing staff in a large UK hospital. Background Increasing rates shortages of health has called for interventions to improve engagement satisfaction. Methods 116 were sampled mixed-methods explanatory sequentia...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of prior absenteeism, demographic variables, and work attitudes (job satisfaction, perceptions of health, and work commitments forms) on absenteeism and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach – This study is a longitudinal survey. The questionnaire used established scales of the research instruments. The sample was composed ...

BACKGROUND Despite advances in science and technology, human resources are of the major capital for organizations. Workforce retention is required to improve organizational efficiencies. OBJECTIVE Therefore, in this study, the relationship between organizational justice (as one of the most influential factors) and turnover intention was investigated. METHODS This descriptive-analytic study ...