The relationship between organizational structural variables and the utilization of nursing practice innovations

• Main Author: Derenowski, Eileen
• Other Authors: Verran, Joyce
• Language: en_US
• Published: The University of Arizona. 1988
• Subjects: Nursing > Research.; Organizational change.
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276865; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/276865

This research sampled a group of 261 nurse managers to test the relationships among organizational structural variables and the utilization of nursing practice innovations. Subjects completed instruments that measured organizational complexity, centralization, formalization and the utilization of nursing practice innovations. Pearson correlations revealed a significant positive relationship between utilization of nursing practice innovations and individual perception of autonomy in decision-making. Within organizational centralization the decision-making components of organizational centralization entered into a multiple regression equation which explained 27% of the variance in utilization of nursing practice innovations, with total decision-making contributing the greatest amount of variance. Organizational complexity variables entered into a multiple regression equation which explained 2% of the variance in utilization of nursing practice innovations with the certification variable explaining the majority of the variance. Five variables related to organizational centralization and complexity together explained 28% of the variance in utilization of nursing practice innovations with the total decision-making variable explaining the majority of the variance.