Politics of Organizational Restructuring in Health Care and Work Ability of Nurses’

Katja Raitio; Lauri Kokkinen

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Politics of Organizational Restructuring in Health Care and Work Ability of Nurses’

Katja Raitio, Lauri Kokkinen

Published in American Journal of Nursing Science (Volume 3, Issue 5)

Received: 6 October 2014 Accepted: 21 October 2014 Published: 10 November 2014

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Abstract

Nurses are the largest employee group in health care but continue to lack presence in organizational restructuring processes. This study examines whether nurses’ opportunities to be involved in organizational restructuring are associated with their work ability. Respondents of a survey were asked to identify the organizational changes that had transpired at their workplaces in the previous two years, and to evaluate their opportunities to be involved in these changes. They were also asked to evaluate their work ability and to assess certain statements related to their individual resources and the characteristics of their work at the time of the survey. The study shows that exclusion of nurses from health care restructuring processes may cause feelings of injustice and lower commitment to work and thus decrease work ability. Nurses who evaluated their opportunities to be involved in the restructuring as poor were at a two-fold risk of decreased work ability in comparison to nurses who stated that their opportunities to be involved were good. We conclude that the nursing profession should collectively aim to enhance individual nurse's opportunities to take part in the planning and implementation of organizational restructuring in health care. Poor opportunities to be involved in restructuring processes may result in costs not only to individual nurses but also to society at large as successful public health outcomes of health care restructuring are dependent on nurses’ work ability and performance.

Published in	American Journal of Nursing Science (Volume 3, Issue 5)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajns.20140305.13
Page(s)	73-77
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2014. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Health Care, Organizational Restructuring, Work Ability, Nurse

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Katja Raitio

The School of Health and Social Studies, JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Jyv?skyl?, Finland
Lauri Kokkinen

The Centre of Expertise for the Development of Work and Organizations, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Tampere, Finland

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