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Aim: This study aimed to investigate the role of professional governance and empowerment in predicting nurses' job satisfaction., Background: Nurses can lead the way to enhance health care quality for all if they work in safe, satisfying and empowering environments. Professional governance and structural empowerment are associated with favourable work conditions and environments. However, studies addressing the predicting effects of professional governance and structural empowerment on job satisfaction are still limited., Methods: A cross-sectional design was applied. Online self-reported questionnaires were completed by 126 nurses. The analysis consisted of descriptive statistics, Pearson r correlation and hierarchical multiple regression to address the research aim., Results: Job satisfaction moderately correlated with structural empowerment (r = .40, p < .001) and professional governance (r = .30, p < .001). The final regression model revealed that 30% of the variation in job performance scores can be predicted by professional governance, structural empowerment and some demographic characteristics (R 2  = .30, F = 8.67, p < .001)., Conclusions: Working in an environment that incorporates empowerment conditions, genuine support and valuable opportunities will increase the nurse's job satisfaction. Additionally, nurses will have higher job satisfaction if they have their voices heard., Implications for Nursing Management: Nurse managers should properly assess the existing situation in each institution, implement already-tested-for-effectiveness and efficiency interventions and create new ones based on nurses'-specific needs., (© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Aim: To explore complex relationships among structural empowerment, formal power and informal power in predicting job performance quality., Background: Job performance is a major determinant of organisations' progress towards their goals and providing quality care. Job performance quality is an aspect of job performance and complex phenomenon that requires a more in-depth understanding of complex relationships predicting its quality in nurses., Methods: This was a cross-sectional quantitative study. Participants were 195 nursing staff providing direct patient care in four hospitals in Jordan. Hayes process was used to examine moderated mediation relationship predicting job performance quality., Results: The proposed model in this study explained 86% of the variance in job performance quality. The results showed that structural empowerment effect on job performance quality was significant for direct and indirect paths. However, those effects varied at different levels of informal power., Conclusion: This study suggested that the relationship between structural empowerment and job performance quality was none linear., Implications for Nursing Management: This study stresses the importance of considering complex relationships in promoting job performance quality. Understanding the nonlinear relationship between structural empowerment and job performance quality is expected to help nursing researchers, administrators and policymakers promote job performance quality., (© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Aim: The study aimed to examine the relationship between structural empowerment and attitudes towards computer use among nurses., Background: Empowering organizational structure is a significant factor affecting employees' attitudes and behaviours towards using organizational resources. Health information technologies were proven to improve health care quality. No previous studies examined the relationship between structural empowerment and attitudes towards computer use., Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was used. Self-reported questionnaires were completed by 200 Jordanian nurses. Descriptive statistics, Pearson r correlation and linear regression analyses were used to address the research aim., Results: Structural empowerment was significantly and positively associated with attitudes towards computer use. Dimensions in structural empowerment that predict positive attitude towards computer use were access to opportunity (β = 0.382, p = .000), formal power (β = -0.252, p = .006) and informal power (β = 0.176, p = .046)., Conclusions: Strengthening access to empowerment structures is essential to increase nurses' work efficiency. Improving empowering structures can be achieved by enhancing opportunities to increase professional knowledge and skills towards computerization., Implications for Nursing Management: Nurse managers should promote work conditions that motivate nurses towards positive recognition of innovation through efficient collaborations with the information technology teams., (© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)