Correlation Between Head Nurses Leadership Styles and Staff Nurses Job Performance
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head nurses, job performance, leadership styles, nursing management, staff nurses, transformational leadershipAbstract
This study examined the correlation between head nurses’ leadership styles and staff nurses’ job performance in two selected hospitals in Masbate Province. It assessed transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership and evaluated job performance in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitude. A descriptive quantitative correlational design was used, involving 150 staff nurses assigned to inpatient units and selected through purposive sampling. Data were gathered using a structured, expert-validated questionnaire and analyzed through frequency and percentage, weighted mean, standard deviation, Pearson product-moment correlation, and multiple linear regression at the .05 significance level. Transformational leadership was the most strongly perceived style (M = 4.36, SD = 0.40), followed by transactional leadership (M = 4.16, SD = 0.43), while laissez-faire leadership was least observed (M = 2.24, SD = 0.92). Staff nurses reported favorable performance in knowledge (M = 4.18, SD = 0.41), skills (M = 4.15, SD = 0.43), and attitude (M = 3.99, SD = 0.50). Transformational leadership was positively related to skills (r = .303, p < .001), whereas transactional leadership was positively related to knowledge (r = .227, p = .005). Laissez-faire leadership was not significantly related to any performance dimension. Regression analysis identified transformational leadership as the only significant predictor of overall job performance (B = 0.151, p = .009). The findings indicate that active, motivating, and supportive leadership is important in strengthening nursing performance and provide a basis for leadership development, mentoring, continuing professional education, and institutional performance-management initiatives.
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