Abstract
Work engagement is an important topic in the field of nursing management. Meanwhile, spiritual leadership has been demonstrated to have a positive impact on healthcare workers. However, the relationship between spiritual leadership and work engagement is unclear. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of spiritual leadership on work engagement through increased spiritual well-being and psychological capital. This study used a cross-sectional survey to collect data in Taiwan. The sample included 164 nurses, with empirical testing carried out by PROCESS Macro for SPSS. The results show that spiritual leadership has a positive influence on work engagement and that spiritual well-being (i.e., calling) and psychological capital mediate the effect of spiritual leadership on work engagement. According to the results of this study, nursing leaders must be aware of the role of spiritual leadership in promoting work engagement.
Highlights
People are being taken care of by an ever more advanced healthcare system
We develop a theoretical framework that draws on the nursing job demands-resources (NJD-R) model [2] to explore how nurses’ work engagement can be explained by nurses’ perception of spiritual leadership, which helps to accumulate resources in the workplace
Based on the NJD-R model, this study argues that spiritual leadership is positively related to work engagement
Summary
People are being taken care of by an ever more advanced healthcare system. Nurses, who account for a large portion of healthcare professionals, may face some unfavorable work environments, such as long work hours, high work pressure, and low wages [2]. These phenomena cause managerial problems, for example, a high rate of intent to leave, labor shortages, and burn out in the workplace [3]. Work engagement has become an important issue in the past few years. This concept originated from the field of organizational behavior
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