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Nurses perform a significant role and play a critical part to face the challenges in the healthcare sector. Traditionally, nursing staff especially in developing countries is considered as a low profile staff, i.e. bearing very lower cadre/grade and often performed many tasks simultaneously. The work at hospitals is very complex in nature and nursing staff is bound to perform several tasks within a given timeframe (Shahzad and Malik, 2014). Therefore, nurses have to search out innovative ways to complete their task at once (Javed et al., 2019). Polychronicity is an individual’s preference to perform multiple things at once by focusing among ongoing issues at the same time instead of completing a single task (Poposki and Oswald, 2010). Although this study proposed that polychronicity is positively related to IWB, however, there is hardly any evidence in the available literature about the impact of polychronicity on IWB of nurses. For example, various researchers argued that polychronicity facilitates organizational performance, job performance and sale growth (Conte and Gintoft, 2005; Hall, 1959). There is a huge gap in our understanding/knowledge about how polychronicity can create a difference in job performance and output. This study is an initiative to add in the literature by exploring the direct impact of polychronicity on IWB. The dominant point of this research paper is how polychronicity enables the possibility for nurses to behave in an innovative way.
IWB is defined as a creativity and innovative ways how new ideas are generated and implemented at the workplace for problem solving and improving the work (Janssen, 2000). Although, researchers have highlighted numerous antecedents of IWB; like individual factors including personality, education and motivation (see e.g. Kheng et al., 2013), job-related factors including autonomy and complexity, and contextual factors like climate for innovation, supervisor support and leadership (see e.g. Ramamoorthy et al., 2005; Scott and Bruce, 1994; Yasir et al., 2018). However, the existing knowledge on IWB in the domain of healthcare sector remained unsuccessful to present any evidence on the link between polychronicity and IWB. Therefore, the current study is initiated to overcome this gap through investigating the link between polychronicity and IWB. This unsatisfying debate focuses on the importance on a very simple question about the relationship between polychronicity and...