Relationship between leadership style of the nursing institutes’ leaders and their teachers’ job satisfaction and motivation | ||||
| Zagazig Nursing Journal | ||||
| Article 6, Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2012, 2012, Page 87-100 PDF (342.91 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/znj.2012.38875 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Gehan Abdallah Abo El Maatti1; Eman Shokery Abd-Allah2; Maha Abdeen Abdeen3 | ||||
| 1BSc. of nursing, faculty of nursing, Zagazig University | ||||
| 2Assistant prof. of Community Health Nursing، Faculty of Nursing ,Zagazig University | ||||
| 3lecturer of nursing administration, Faculty of Nursing ,Zagazig University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Nurse Teachers' dissatisfaction is often attributed to heavy workloads, inadequate leadership styles used by their leaders, lack of motivation, inadequate training, and lack of recognition and respect. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between leadership styles of the nursing technical institutes' leaders and nurse teachers’ job satisfaction and motivation to work. Setting: It was conducted in 18 different Nursing Technical Institute at Elsharkia governorate affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP), the National Health Insurance Organization (HIO), and Zagazig University Hospitals using a cross-sectional analytic design. The study sample included 36 technical institutes’ leaders and 116 nurse teachers. Tools: Data were collected using selfadministered questionnaires for both groups. The results revealed that leadership scores were generally low, and 69.4% of the leaders predominantly used the transactional style, compared to 30.6% using the transformational style, with no significant relation to their personal characteristics. Of the nurse teachers 62.1% had total high job satisfaction, and it was significantly related to age, experience, and qualification; 77.6% of them had high motivation, with no significant associations with any of their personal characteristics. Transformational leadership had a significant association with nurse teachers' satisfaction and motivation. A statistically significant moderate positive correlation was revealed between the scores of motivation and satisfaction (r=0.466), and a negative correlation between the scores motivation and transactional style (r=-0.185). It is concluded that leaders of the technical nursing institutes have low leadership scores, and are predominantly using the transactional leadership style. The use of transformational leadership style is associated with higher satisfaction and motivation. Therefore, it is conclusion that the leaders of nursing institutes improve their leadership skills through periodic on-the-job training courses, and continuing education, and this should be a pre-requisite for appointment to leader position. Future research is recommended to test the effectiveness of interventions to enhance nurse teachers’ job satisfaction and motivation such as leadership training programs for leaders and staff development programs for nurse teachers. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| leadership; Job Satisfaction; motivation | ||||
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