Research on the relationship between nurses' perceptions of head nurses' leadership style and nurses' work engagement
XU Hui
Abstract：Objective To explore the relationship between head nurses' leadership style and nurse work engagement,providing empirical evidence for improving the management effictiveness and nurses' work engagement of head nurse.Methods The transformational leadership style scale,transactional leadership style scale and work engagement scale were used to investigate 311 nurses.Results The average score of transformational leadership style of head nurses perceived by nurses(4.12±0.64)was higher than that of transactional leadership style(3.94±0.68).Among the dimensions of transformational leadership styles,the average score of the dimension of moral exemplary behavior was the highest(4.30±0.90),while the average score of the dimension of personalized care was the lowest(3.96±0.84);In transactional leadership style,the average score of active exception management dimension was the highest(3.94±0.68),and the average score of passive exception management dimension was the lowest( 3.25±1.46 );The average score of the dedication dimension of nurses' work engagement was the highest( 3.68±0.77 ),while the average score of the vitality dimension was the lowest ( 3.51±0.71 );The transformational leadership style of head nurses can positively increase nurses' job engagement.Conclusions In nursing practice,head nurses should focus on applying transformational leadership style to increase work engagement,and thereby improve work performance.
Keywords：Head nursesTransformational leadership styleTransactional leadership styleNursesWork engagement
Publication Date：2024-11-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 523-527 )