Meaningful Work and Job Performance Among Nurses in Medical University Hospitals, The People’s Republic of China
Keywords:
Meaningful Work, Job Performance, NursesAbstract
Meaningful work is a significant factor that has an effect on job performance among nurses. The purposes of this descriptive correlational study were to identify the level of meaningful work, task performance, and contextual performance, and to examine the relationship between meaningful work and task performance as well as contextual performance among nurses working in medical university hospitals in The People’s Republic of China. Stratified random sampling was used to select 389 nurses working in four medical university hospitals in Harbin. The research instruments included: 1) Demographic Data Form, 2) The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI) developed by Steger et al. (2012) and translated into Chinese by the researcher, and 3) Shortened Job Performance Scale (SJPS) developed by Greenslade (2008) and translated into Chinese by Lin (2012). The validity and reliability of both WAMI and SJPS were confirmed. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation analysis.
The results revealed that:
- Meaningful work, task performance and contextual performance as perceived by nurses were at a moderate level.
- There was a statistically significant positive correlation between meaningful work and both task performance and contextual performance at a moderate level.
The results of this study could be used as basic information for nurses and hospital administrators to develop plans and strategies to enhance meaningful work in order to improve job performance among nurses in Medical University Hospitals in The People’s Republic of China.
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