Organizational and Personal Factors That Boost Innovation: The Case of Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic Based on Job Demands-Resources Model

Ariana Moreno Cunha, Carla Susana Marques and Gina Santos
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Ariana Moreno Cunha: Hepatology Day Care Hospital, Centro Hospitalar Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (CHTMAD), 5000-508 Vila Real, Portugal
Carla Susana Marques: CETRAD Research Centre, Department of Economics Sociology and Management, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Gina Santos: CETRAD Research Centre, Lusófona University, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: Since 2019, the world has been experiencing a pandemic period due to the COVID-19 virus, which has brought the need for organizations in general, healthcare organizations and their professionals in particular, to focus on innovation as a way to fight an utterly unknown virus. Thus, this study aims to understand how nurses and their personal factors (stress, anxiety, work engagement, organizational support) impact their innovative behaviour and innovation outputs, contributing to innovation in the current pandemic period through changes in thoughts, values, behaviours and relationships among healthcare professionals and their organizations. For this purpose, the Job Demands-Resources model was used as a reference, and the measurement instrument was applied to 738 nurses working in healthcare units in Portugal. Therefore, it was found that the nurses’ personal factors have a positive effect on the nurses’ innovative behaviour and innovation outputs, with the innovative behaviour having the most significant impact on innovation outputs, which will benefit healthcare organizations and the healthcare provided to patients during the pandemic, through innovative behaviours and products. It is also possible to understand how the available resources and the demands imposed on nurses interfere with their innovative behaviour (Job Demands-Resources model).

Keywords: stress; anxiety; work engagement; organizational support; innovative behaviour; innovation outputs; job demands-resources model; nurses; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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