Agility and Safety Performance among Nurses: The Mediating Role of Mindful Organizing

• Published in: Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 666 - 679
• Main Authors: Saleem, Muhammad Shoaib, Isha, Ahmad Shahrul Nizam, Mohd Yusop, Yuzana, Awan, Maheen Iqbal, Naji, Gehad Mohammed Ahmed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 30.08.2021; MDPI
• Subjects: Adaptability; Behavior; Employees; Health care industry; Hypotheses; mindful organizing; Mindfulness; Nuclear power plants; Patient safety; proactivity; resilience; safety performance; Workforce; workforce agility; mindful organizing; proactivity; nursing staff; safety performance; workforce agility; adaptability; resilience
• ISSN: 2039-4403; 2039-439X; 2039-4403
• DOI: 10.3390/nursrep11030063

This study aimed to assess the impact of workforce agility on private hospital nursing staff’s safety behavior with the mediating role of mindful organizing. This study was cross-sectional. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 369 nursing staff. The structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was used to check the internal consistency, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and hypotheses testing. For mediation analysis, the bootstrapping technique was used. Our findings suggested that workforce agility is the possible predictor of mindful organizing, as all of these dimensions have a positive impact on mindful organizing. Reference to safety performance sub-dimensions, proactivity, adaptability, and resilience had a positive significant impact on (a) safety compliance, and proactivity had a positive impact on (b) safety participation. Further, mindful organizing was also found to be positively associated with safety performance. Evidence for mediation between workforce agility and safety performance was also observed. Proactivity, adaptability, and resilience can enhance safety performance for the nursing staff. Workforce agility can also help the organization to attain mindful organizing, which will help them to achieve operational excellence, whereas in the past, high-reliability organizations were mainly found practicing mindful organizing. This study demonstrated the key impact of workforce agility and mindful organizing on safety behaviors directly and indirectly.