Glenn Ford D. Valdez
Oman College of Health Sciences –Dhofar, Oman
Title: Oman Nursing Faculty Workplace Empowerment, Burnout, and Job Satisfaction: Testing Kanter’s theory
Biography
Biography: Glenn Ford D. Valdez
Abstract
Aims: Identify the level and the relationship of Nurse Faculty workplace empowerment, burnout and job satisfaction utilizing Kanters Theory among Oman College of Health Sciences Nursing Faculty.
Methods: The study is a descriptive correlational study. The study utilized online survey tools for self-assessment and evaluation the study explored on the level of empowerment, burnout and job satisfaction among. IRB-MOH/CSR/17/589 approval sought from Center for research studies & Research and Ethics Review & Approval Committee (RERAC). Nurse Educators around the sultanate specifically the one hundred forty two (142) faculty of nursing working in Oman College of Health Sciences who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were the target of the study.
Result: The faculty members from Oman reported moderate levels of empowerment, job satisfaction and burnout in their respective branches. There was a significant correlation between structural empowerment and job satisfaction (r=0.603, p<0.01) or burnout (r=0.718, p<0.01). The computed value of r reveals a strong positive correlation. This indicates that there is a direct correlation between structural empowerment and job satisfaction. Moreover, the result also shows that there was a significant positive correlation between job satisfaction and burnout (r=0.759, p<0.01). However, since higher informal power indicates lesser stress then this reveals an inverse strong correlation between the two variables. This means that the more the respondent is satisfied, the lesser the stress level.
Conclusion: The end result provides support for Kanter’s organizational support theory in the Oman College of Health Science Branches population. Greater levels of empowerment were concomitant with lesser levels of burnout and greater work satisfaction.
Implication for Nursing Management: Nursing education leaders are a key in aligning the support and services in colleges and nursing educational institutions in the provision of a more empowering environment and stress free workplaces.
Keywords
Burnout, workplace empowerment, job satisfaction, nursing faculty, kanters theory, Oman nursing faculty.