The Effect of Nurse Managers’ Leadership Style on Staff Nurses’ Organizational Commitment

Abstract

Nurse managers have major responsibility in implementing the vision, mission, philosophy, core values, standards of the organization, and nursing services within their defined areas of responsibility. Leaders may adopt various styles of leadership; the choice depends on diverse factors such as personality traits of leaders, followers’ acceptance of the leaders, their readiness, task complexity and the norms and values embraced by the organizational members. Leadership style is especially important to motivate employees’ commitment to fulfill organizational objectives and enhance job performance. Organizational commitment is the employee psychological relationship with the organization. The aim of the present study was identifying the effect of nurse managers’ leadership styles on staff nurses’ organizational commitment. It was carried out at Nasser Institute affiliated to the Specialized Medical Centers using a descriptive correlational design. The study subjects consisted of two groups by a simple random sampling technique was used in recruiting the required sample. First group: 80 nurse managers out from 93 were participated in the study, were included in the study settin