BACKGROUND Leadership style of nurse managers plays a significant role in nurses' job satisfaction. However, there is limited literature in areas related to nurses' manager leadership style. The objective of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between leadership style of nurse managers and nurses' job satisfaction in Jimma University Specialized Hospital. METHODS The study ...

The aim of this research is to examine the psychometric properties of a Spanish version of the Human System Audit transformational leadership short-scale (HSA-TFL-ES). It is based on the concept of Bass developed in 1985. The HSA-TFL is a part of the wider Human System Audit frame. We analyzed the HSA-TFL-ES in five different samples with a total number of 1,718 workers at five sectors. Explora...

Available online 22 September 2011 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the viability of using neurological imaging to classify transformational leaders, versus non-transformational leaders, as identified through existing psychometric methods. Specifically, power spectral analysis measures based on electroencephalograms (EEG) were used to develop and validate a discriminant function that c...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of transformational leadership and its components on work engagement among hospital nurses. There are a few set of researches that have focused on the effects of transformational leadership on work engagement in nurses. A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design was used. In this study, 240 nurses have been chosen by stratified random...

Critical review of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Form 5X (MLQ5X), reveals serious problems related to specification of the theoretical level of analysis at which it measures its underlying constructs. Data from two separate samples indicate that items of the commonly used MLQ5X are ambiguous with respect to level of analysis. It appears unclear in many instances whether the items re...

In today’s fast-paced business environment, leaders who fail to recognize and respond the emotions of their employees can result in stagnation or a lack growth organization. light this, current study presents method for identifying leadership styles based on perspectives employees, exploring perceptions specific traits. Drawing upon Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire framework, this aims iden...

Transformational leaders are who ‘transform and inspire followers to perform beyond expectations while transcending self-interest for the good of organisation’. ‘Discernment’ is defined as individual communal practice decision-making that oriented on future (educational aims), conditioned by personal qualities (purity heart), which emphasises teleological ethics source reliance. In line with th...