TITLE:
Issues of Attraction and Retention of Nurses: Job Control, Time and Work-Family Issues
AUTHORS:
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
KEYWORDS:
Work-Life, Work-Family, Attraction, Retention, Nurses, Job Control, Time
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.9 No.4,
November
16,
2021
ABSTRACT: Over the years there have been many challenges in
attracting and retaining various workers, especially in the health sector, and
for nurses in particular. Literature has often mentioned the increased
difficulties in attracting and retaining young nurses in particular and this
increases labour shortage due to the demographic evolution and also to
retirement of many nurses. With the aging of population, we see an increase in
demand for health services, which makes the labor shortage even more
preoccupying. Two main issues have been put forward a few years ago in order to
try to explain the difficulty in attracting and retaining nurses: work
organization and Lean Management, in particular job control and work-family
balance issues. We conducted a research in Canada (Québec) with an online
questionnaire sent to a sample of nurses. The article presents the result in
the form of descriptive statistics. In this article, we address these
challenges and identify the elements on which the Health Department and
hospitals could act in order to increase the number of nurses, and more
specifically to attract and retain more. For this, two main issues are
addressed in the literature that is firstly work-life issues, and second, work
organization, including (lean) management and job control, which we discuss
here. These results could also be useful for attraction and retention of other
health personnel and also for managers facing labor shortages in other sectors.