Article Critique – Minimizing Deviant Behavior in Healthcare Organizations: The Effects of Supportive Leadership and Job Design
1. List all authors, the year, article title, journal name, volume number, issue number, and page numbers.
Minimizing Deviant Behavior in Healthcare Organizations: The Effects of Supportive Leadership and Job Design
C. Logan Chullen, Benjamin B. Dunford, Ingo Angermeier, R. Wayne Boss, and Alan D. Boss
Journal of Healthcare Management, November/December 2010, Volume 55, Number 6, Pages 381-398
2. Purpose of the study.
The purpose of the study was to show how supportive management practices and enriched work design…show more content… 5. List the independent variable(s).
The independent variables for this study were the measures of LMS, POS, OS, intrinsic motivation, and depersonalization by managers and the organization has on employee deviant behavior.
The independent variables for LMX were taken from the current year’s employee survey of the employee’s responses to the questions that measured the quality of the relationship between employees and their managers. Questions were pulled out regarding the organization based on how the employee perceived the organization supporting them, valued them, and cares for them to identify POS and OS. To measure intrinsic motivation, questions from the employee survey were measured to determine the employee’s satisfaction with their job. In measuring depersonalization, questions were measured on how the employee felt about their manager.
6. List the dependent variable(s).
The dependent variables were taken from employee personnel files to determine employee deviant behavior directed from the employee to an individual and the employee to the organization.
7. List the control variable(s).
Control variables were utilized in this study to address the possibility of any false relationship, such as, age, gender, and tenure.
8. Describe the sample for the population. Include the sample
