Varaporn Seehom. Exemplary leadership of head nurses affecting job satisfaction and organizational commitiment of staff nurses in general hospitals in the northern of Thailand . Master's Degree(Health Administration). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2006.
Exemplary leadership of head nurses affecting job satisfaction and organizational commitiment of staff nurses in general hospitals in the northern of Thailand
Abstract:
The purposes of this descriptive research were to compare exemplary
leadership of head nurses self-assessment and their working staff nurses, and to
investigate the relationship between exemplary leadership, job satisfaction and
organizational commitment among nurses in general hospitals in the Northern
Region. The theoretical constructs underlying this research are the exemplary
leadership theory, motivation, hygiene theory and organizational commitment. A
cross-sectional, field survey of 553 head nurses and staff nurses was conducted to
assess exemplary leadership. Hypotheses were tested using pair-t-test and
Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.
The results revealed that head nurses had job satisfaction in the moderate
level in the motivation factor and hygiene factors. Commitment to the
organization was at a moderate level but organizational commitment was at a high
level by their self report but it was in the moderate level when it was assessed by
the staff nurses. There was a difference at the level of significant (p-valuve ≤
0.000) when their results are compared. By using Pearson’s product moment
correlation coefficient to analyze the relationship, it was found that exemplary
leadership of head nurses was correlated with job satisfaction, which had a
moderate level of positive correlation, and organizational commitment had a low
level of positive correlation at 0.01 of significance (r= 0.542 and 0.264
respectively)
The results suggested that head nurses should have training and developing
the exemplary leadership on their own by asking staff nurses co-participate in the
implementation, open the opportunity for them to established the target, set the
working roles clearly, including to develop the relationship to have collaboration,
assign the important job to implement, administer, advancement support to have
progressive in implementation by set the training, academic meeting and leave for
the higher education for development and knowledge for nurses performance to
increase their efficiency. That will make staff nurses value the organization, have
job satisfaction and commitment to the organization