The Relationship Among Leadership Behaviors Of Nurse Managers, And Job Satisfaction, Orgnizational Commitment Of Staff Nurses

Objective: To describe the status of transformational leadership (TL) and transactional leadership (TA) of nurse managers which perceived by nurses,to describe the status of nurses' job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and analyzed the correlation among them. To learn about whether or not existed differences of perceived leadership styles of nurse managers, job satisfaction and organizational commitment among different demographic characteristics of nurses.Method: Non-experimental design method was used in this research, 600 nurses from seven third grade comprehensive hospitals were selected by convenient sampling method. 456 questionnaires were taken back. The questionnaire contained four parts: the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire which comprises 32 items divided into two subscales was used to measure transactional and transformational leadership style of nurse managers perceived by staff nurses. The job satisfaction was used to measure job satisfaction of registered staff nurses. The organizational commitment of Chinese workers was used to measure organizational commitment of registered staff nurses. Queationnaire of demographic characteristics of nurses was used to investigate age, years experience, the title of a technical post and income of nurses. The mainly method of statistics was mean, percent, t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson's Correlation.Result: (1) The average score of nurse managers' transformational leadership was higher than that of nurse managers' transactional leadership. The average score of each item in TF was in sequence of Inspirational Motivation(IM) , Idealized Influence(II) , Intellectual Stimulation(IS) and Individualized Consideration(IC); The average score of each item in TA was in sequence of Contingent Reward (CR) , Management-by-exception active(MEA) and Management-by-exception passive(MEP).The average score of nurses' extrinsic satisfaction was higher than that of intrinsic satisfaction. The average score of each item in the organizational commitment was in sequence of normative commitment, affective commitment, ideal commitment, economic commitment and choice commitment.(2) A positive correlation was found among job satisfaction and organizational commitment of registered staff nurses and leadership of nurse managers. A positive correlation was found between IM, II, IC, IS, CR, MEA and job satisfaction, normative commitment, affective commitment, ideal commitment. A negative correlation was found between IM, II, IC, IS, CR, MEA and economic commitment and choice commitment. A negative correlation was found between MEP of nurse managers and job satisfaction, normative commitment, affective commitment, ideal commitment of nurse. A positive correlation was found between MEP of nurse managers and economic commitment and choice commitment.(3) There existed positive correlation between job satisfaction of employees and the organization commitment. There existed positive correlation between job satisfaction and affective commitment, normative commitment, ideal commitment of nurse. There existed negative correlation between job satisfaction and choice commitment of nurse. There was no correlation between job satisfaction and economic commitment.(4) The leadership was influenced by the following factors age, year experience, the title of a technical post and education. Nurses' organizational commitment was influenced by age, years experience, the title of a technical post and income. None influenced nurses' job satisfaction.Conclusion: (1) The average score of nurse managers' transformational leadership was higher than that of nurse managers' transactional leadership. The average score of nurses' extrinsic satisfaction was higher than that of intrinsic satisfaction. The average score of each item in the organizational commitment was in sequence of normative commitment, affective commitment, ideal commitment, economic commitment and choice commitment.(2) A positive correlation was found among job satisfaction, organizational commitment of registered staff nurses and leadership of nurse managers. A significant positive correlation was found between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of registered staff nurses.(3) Demographic characteristics of nurses which could simultaneously influence the leadership of nurse manager and organizational commitment of nurses were nurses' age, years experience, the title of a technical post.