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The Effects of Leadership and Job Autonomy on Vitality: Survey and Experimental Evidence.

ABSTRACT: Vitality refers to the experience of having energy available to one's self. Vital employees are full of positive energy when they work, and feel mentally and physically strong. Such employees often show higher job performance and lower stress than their less vital colleagues. Despite the importance of vitality, few public administration studies have studied vitality. More generally, by focusing on vitality, we aim to bring a "positive psychology" perspective into the domain of public administration. We analyze whether two important job characteristics (leader's task communication and job autonomy) affect vitality. We use a multi-method design. A large-scale survey (N = 1,502) shows that leader's task communication and job autonomy are positively related to vitality. A lab experiment (N = 102) replicated these findings, showing cause-and-effect relationships. In conclusion, public organizations can potentially increase employee vitality (a) by increased task communication from leaders and (b) by providing employees with greater job autonomy.

SUBMITTER: Tummers L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6055114 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Effects of Leadership and Job Autonomy on Vitality: Survey and Experimental Evidence.

Tummers Lars L Steijn Bram B Nevicka Barbara B Heerema Madelon M

Review of public personnel administration 20161004 3

Vitality refers to the experience of having energy available to one's self. Vital employees are full of positive energy when they work, and feel mentally and physically strong. Such employees often show higher job performance and lower stress than their less vital colleagues. Despite the importance of vitality, few public administration studies have studied vitality. More generally, by focusing on vitality, we aim to bring a "positive psychology" perspective into the domain of public administrat ...[more]

PMID: 30100670

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Project description:BackgroundThe Nurse Practitioner (NP) workforce represents a substantial supply of primary care providers able to contribute to meeting a growing demand for care. However, controversy exists regarding the expanding role of NPs in primary care in terms of challenging the teamwork between NPs and physicians. To date, no empirical evidence exists regarding how to promote teamwork in primary care between NPs and physicians.ObjectiveWe investigated whether NP autonomy within primary care practices and the relationships they have with leadership affect teamwork between NPs and physicians.DesignUsing a cross-sectional survey design, data was collected from 163 primary care practices in Massachusetts.ParticipantsThree hundred and fourteen primary care NPs completed and returned the mail survey yielding a response rate of 40 %.Main measuresThe Autonomy and Independent Practice (AIP) and NP-Administration Relations (NP-AR) scales were used to measure NP independent practice and the relationships with leadership, respectively. These measures were aggregated to the practice level. Teamwork between NPs and physicians was measured at the individual NP level using the Teamwork (TW) scale.Key resultsThe multilevel linear regression models investigated the influence of practice-level NP autonomy and the relationship between NPs and leadership on teamwork. With every unit increase on the practice-level mean score of AIP centered at the grand mean, the mean TW score increased by 0.271 units (p < 0.0001). With every unit increase of NP-AR centered at the grand mean, the mean TW score increased by 0.375 (p < 0.001). Over one-third (41.3 %) of the variance in teamwork could be explained by the final model.ConclusionThe study findings demonstrate that NP autonomy and favorable relationships with leadership improve teamwork. Policy and organizational change should focus on promoting NP autonomy and improving the relationship between NPs and leadership to improve teamwork and consequently improve patient care and outcomes.

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The Effects of Leadership and Job Autonomy on Vitality: Survey and Experimental Evidence.

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The Effects of Leadership and Job Autonomy on Vitality: Survey and Experimental Evidence.

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