Relationships among leadership practices, work environments, staff communication and outcomes in long-term care.

Aim: To examine the role that work relationships have on two long-term care outcomes: job satisfaction and turnover intention.

Background: It is easy to overlook the impact that human relations have in shaping work environments that are conducive to organizational effectiveness. Employee job satisfaction and retention are important organizational outcomes.

Work environments and staff responses to work environments in institutional long-term care.

Background: Structures and processes of care such as work environments and care provider responses to work environments have been shown to influence organizational outcomes. To improve health care quality, structures, processes, and outcomes of care should be considered. There is almost no literature reporting on the structural characteristics of work environments and care provider responses to work environments in institutional long-term (chronic) care settings.