The impact of workplace empowerment, organizational trust on staff nurses'work satisfaction and organizational commitment

A predictive, nonexperimental design was used to test Kanter's(1) work empo werment theory in a random sample of 412 staff nurses selected from the pro fessional registry list of a central Canadian province. Kanter argues that work environments that provide access to information, support, resources, a nd opportunity to learn and develop are empowering and influence employee w ork attitudes, productivity, and organizational effectiveness. Test results suggest that fostering environments that enhance perceptions empowerment w ill have positive effects on organizational members and increase organizati onal effectiveness. (C) 2001 Aspen Publishers, Inc.