Influence Of Empowerment, Work Environment and Work Attitude on The Performance of Emergency Room Nurses

Influence Of Empowerment, Work Environment and Work Attitude on The Performance of Emergency Room Nurses I Made Adi Wahyu Udaksana1* , I Wayan Gede Supartha2 , I Made Artha Authority3 , Ida Bagus Ketut4 1Candidate Doctoral Program, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia; Email: adiudaksa@gmail.com 2Professor and Lecturer Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia 3Lecture Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia 4Lecture Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Udayana University, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia * Corresponding Author Abstract The purpose of this study is to examine influence of empowerment, work environment and work attitude on the performance of emergency room nurses in hospitals in Bali. In the study, quantitative research was adapted via examining the causal relationship of exogenous and endogenous variables. The participants were selected using saturated sampling method and were composed of 221 nurses. The data were collected using a questionnaire developed by the researchers. The obtained data were analyzed through SEM-PLS method. The results showed that nurse empowerment had a positive and significant effect on nurse performance, work attitude had a positive and significant effect on nurse performance, work environment had a negative and insignificant effect on nurse performance, and nurse empowerment had a positive and significant effect. Keywords: Empowerment, work environment, work attitude, performance, nurses