Does performance management affect nurses' well-being?. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Decramer, Adelien; Audenaert, Mieke; Van Waeyenberg, Thomas; Claeys, Tine; Claes, Claudia; Vandevelde, Stijn; van Loon, Jos; Crucke, Saskia
• Is Part Of: Evaluation and program planning. Volume 49(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 98
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Employee performance management -- Vertical alignment -- Performance planning -- Performance management satisfaction -- Performance evaluation -- Affective well-being -- Job satisfaction -- Affective commitment; Health planning -- Periodicals; Medical care -- Evaluation -- Periodicals; 362.1068
• DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.12.018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-7189

Abstract

Abstract: Aim: This article focuses on employee performance-management practices in the healthcare sector. We specifically aim to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of employee performance-management practices on affective well-being of nurses in hospitals. Theory suggests that the features of employee-performance management (planning and evaluation of individual performances) predict affective well-being (in this study: job satisfaction and affective commitment). Methods: Performance-management planning and evaluation and affective well-being were drawn from a survey of nurses at a Flemish hospital. Separate estimations were performed for different aspects of affective well-being. Results: Performance planning has a negative effect on job satisfaction of nurses. Both vertical alignment and satisfaction with the employee performance-management system increase the affective well-being of nurses; however, the impact of vertical alignment differs for different aspects of affective well-being (i.e. job satisfaction and affective commitment). Conclusion: Performance-management planning and evaluation of nurses are associated with attitudinal outcomes. The results indicate that employee performance-management features have different impacts on different aspects of well-being.