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- Title
Meaning creation and employee engagement in home health caregivers.
- Authors
Nielsen, Mette Strange; Jørgensen, Frances
- Abstract
The purpose of this study is to contribute to an understanding on how home health caregivers experience engagement in their work, and specifically, how aspects of home healthcare work create meaning associated with employee engagement. Although much research on engagement has been conducted, little has addressed how individual differences such as worker orientation influence engagement, or how engagement is experienced within a caregiving context. The study is based on a qualitative study in two home homecare organisations in Denmark using a think-aloud data technique, interviews and observations. The analysis suggests caregivers experience meaning in three relatively distinct ways, depending on their work orientation. Specifically, the nature of engagement varies across caregivers oriented towards being 'nurturers', 'professionals', or 'workers', and the sources of engagement differ for each of these types of caregivers. The article contributes by (i) advancing our theoretical understanding of employee engagement by emphasising meaning creation and (ii) identifying factors that influence meaning creation and engagement of home health caregivers, which should consequently affect the quality of services provided home healthcare patients.
- Subjects
DENMARK; HOME care services; HOME health aides; INTERVIEWING; JOB descriptions; JOB satisfaction; JOB stress; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT-professional relations; MOTIVATION (Psychology); RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; WORK; EMPLOYEES' workload; QUALITATIVE research; JOB performance; THEMATIC analysis; WORK experience (Employment)
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0283-9318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/scs.12221