Organizational Silence and Work Engagement Among Chinese Clinical Nurses: The Mediating Role of Career Calling

<b>Aim:</b> This study aimed to explore how organizational silence affected work engagement in Chinese nurses and examining the impact of career calling on mediating the relation. <b>Background:</b> Work engagement of nurses is vital for the quality of healthcare service. Organizational silence has been suggested to be negative for work engagement, but it remains elusive if organizational silence may reduce career calling and work engagement among nurses. <b>Method:</b> This study used the self-report questionnaire for data collection in Chongqing City, China. Structured questionnaires were adopted to measure clinical nurses' organizational silence, work engagement, and career calling. Our research hypotheses were verified through using the structural equation model. <b>Result:</b> A total of 1858 valid questionnaires were collected. Organizational silence showed significant and negative relation with work engagement and career calling of clinical nurses (<i>p</i> < 0.01). Career calling played a role in mediating the relation of organizational silence with work engagement. <b>Conclusion:</b> Reducing organizational silence is important for promoting the work engagement of clinical nurses, and career calling exerts a key effect on interpreting the mechanism of organizational silence in reducing nurses' work engagement. <b>Implications for Nursing Management:</b> Hospital managers must focus on reducing nurses' organizational silence to increase clinical nurses' work engagement and career calling.