Emergency department nurses’ intrinsic motivation: A bridge between empowering leadership and thriving at work

The relationship between empowering leadership, intrinsic motivation, and thriving at work among emergency department nurses is unclear. Thriving at work can raise employees' job satisfaction and lower their tendency to quit. High workloads and unpleasant workplace experiences may result in emergency department nurses thriving less at work. It has been demonstrated that intrinsic motivation and empowering leadership are both linked to thriving at work in employees.