Abstract
Background: Healthcare organizations that need to achieve excellence and development in today's competitive world should concentrate on developing constructive work designs to optimize staff nurses' creativity to confront work environment challenges. Aim: To examine the relationship between work design and staff nurses' creativity. Research design: A descriptive correlational design was applied. Subjects and setting: A convenient sample of 300 nurses were included in this study classified as 160 nurses in surgical care units and 140 nurses in medical care units of the Alexandria Main University Hospital. Tools: Two tools were utilized namely the Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ) and the Reisman Diagnostic Creativity Assessment scale (RDCA). Results: The study results showed that more than half of nurses (52.7%) perceived a high mean score percentage (68.18%) of overall work design, the majority of studied nurses (92.3%) perceived a high mean score percentage of creativity (82.49%) Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a statistically significant weak relationship between work design and staff nurses' creativity (r=0.197* p= 0.001*). Recommendations: So, hospital nursing administrators should develop workshops and training programs for managers, team leaders, policymakers, and staff nurses to improve work design-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivation and enhance staff nurses' creativity and creative problem-solving.