Cognitive Appraisal of Job Autonomy by Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Job autonomy (JA), a task-level job resource has the potential to motivate individual behavior; it is indecisive, however, whether JA promotes or hinders extra-role behavior.

Objective: The study aims to examine the effect of JA on innovative work behavior (IWB) directly and indirectly through cognitive appraisal and work engagement (WE) while considering the organization type and age as control variables.

Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the data from 326 nurses.

Cultivating Innovative Work Behavior of Nurses Through Diversity Climate: The Mediating Role of Job Crafting.

Introduction: Innovative work behavior of nurses is essential to deliver affordable quality healthcare services. Diversity climate and job crafting are a few of the supportive managerial strategies that can be applied to cultivate the innovative capacity of nurses.

Objective: Aim for the current study is to: (a) examine the role of diversity climate in cultivating innovative work behavior of nurses directly; and (b) indirectly through job crafting.