Article Analysis: Healthcare, Commitment, and Innovation

This report analyzes an article that explores the relationship between organizational factors, employee commitment, and innovative behavior within the Australian healthcare system. The article highlights the challenges faced by the healthcare system, particularly the shortage of nurses, and emphasizes the importance of fostering commitment and innovative behavior among healthcare professionals. The study examines how workplace relationships, organizational factors, and social exchange can influence nurses' commitment and innovative actions. The authors suggest that hospitals should focus on creating a supportive environment that promotes social relationships and provides nurses with the resources and information necessary to engage in innovative processes. The research indicates that committed employees are more likely to exhibit innovative behavior, and that this can be enhanced through effective workplace relationships and organizational practices. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these factors in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare institutions.

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ARTICLE ANALYSIS -ORGANIZATIONAL AND CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR
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Article Analysis -Organizational and Citizenship Behavior
Article: “Are committed employees more likely to exhibit innovative behaviour: a social
exchange perspective.”
This paper looks at organizational aspects and workplace relations, which can be, used in
developing commitment and enabling a setting that enhances the innovative behavior of nurses
who are working within the Australian health care system. It also provides an insight into the
link between different factors and their influence on enabling employees to have organizational
commitment and innovative behavior (Brunetto & Xerri 2013).
The Australian healthcare system is being affected by a shortage of nurses. Nurses are
leaving the profession due to different issues and there is a problem of retention across a number
of Australian hospitals. Many wards in the public and private healthcare institutions are being
forced into closure due to the shortage of nurses. It is therefore in the best interest of healthcare
organizations to delve into the issues that affect nurses such that they cannot maintain their
commitment.
When effective relationships in the work place are made, the organization gets a number
of benefits as successful relations amongst staff at different levels in the organization results in
sharing of information and trust hence making employees feel empowered and they also embrace
accountability (Brunetto & Xerri 2013).This enables them to perform their roles in an efficient
and effective manner .
The paper hypothesizes as follows:
1. There is a relationship between organizational factors on work related outcomes and
innovative behavior of nurses working within Australian healthcare.

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2. There are similarities in behaviour in relation to organizational factors and outcomes that
are work related for public and private sector nurses in Australia.
The authors provide an insight into how hospitals are able to enhance efficiency of
nurses. They conclude that relationships which are social can be used to improve the innovative
actions of nurses. Hospitals must therefore ensure that nurses are attached emotionally to
healthcare institutions and that they have enough social relationships in the workplace that will
enable them to get knowledge, information and resources that will support the innovative process
(Brunetto & Xerri 2013).

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References
Brunetto, Y. and Xerri, M.J, 2013. Fostering innovative behaviour: The importance of employee
commitment and organisational citizenship behaviour. The International Journal of
Human Resource Management, 24(16), pp.3163-3177.