Association of Organizational Behavior with Work Engagement and Work-Home Conflicts of Physician in China

Nannan Liu, Yimei Zhu, Xiaoyu Wang, Hongwei Jiang and Yuan Liang
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Nannan Liu: Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China
Yimei Zhu: School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Xiaoyu Wang: Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China
Hongwei Jiang: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China
Yuan Liang: Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 13 Hangkong Road, Wuhan 430030, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: This study aimed to examine how organizational behavior is associated with work engagement (WE) and work-home conflicts (WHCs) of physicians. The data were from a national cross-sectional survey of 3255 Chinese physicians. We examined organizational fairness, leadership attention, and team interaction for organizational behavior. The results indicate that greater organizational fairness is associated with higher WE and lower WHCs. High task fairness was associated with greater pride, and more enjoyment in work, lower sense of guilt towards their family, and less complaints from family members. Physicians reporting higher levels of leaders’ attention to their opinions reported experiencing more enjoyment of their work, and less effects on their care for family. A greater number of dinners with colleagues per month was associated with higher WE and lower WHCs, whilst a greater number of clinical case meetings per month was associated with higher WE and higher WHCs. The results suggest that the behavior of organizations could be an important intervention to improve the wellbeing of physicians.

Keywords: organizational behavior; work engagement; work-home conflicts; physician (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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