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 Volume 10, Issue 1 (January 2023), Pages: 55-61

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 Original Research Paper

 A study of staff nurses' perceptions of nursing leadership styles and work engagement levels in Saudi general hospitals

 Author(s): Areej Mohammed Asiri *, Sabah Mahmoud Mahran, Naglaa Abdelaziz Elseesy

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Nursing, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-9023

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2023.01.008

 Abstract:

Leadership styles are meaningful in facing obstacles in healthcare, such as improving quality of care and performance of safety, minimizing expense, and keeping high-performing nursing staff; as a result, they can positively or negatively affect nursing work engagement, which has an impact on employee satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and organizational productivity. Thus the objective of this study is to determine the perception of the relationship between nurse managers' leadership styles and the levels of work engagement of the staff nurses in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This study used a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional, and correlational design. A convenience sampling technique was used to select 383 staff nurses working in governmental hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire 5X short form were used to collect data. The study found that transformational leadership style (M±SD: 2.34±.946) and transactional leadership style (M±SD: 2.03±.686) had the highest mean scores from staff nurses' perceptions, while laissez-faire leadership style (M±SD: 1.4±.991) had the lowest mean score. Moreover, the highest mean score of staff nurses’ work engagement was dedication (M±SD: 4.80±1.380), and the lowest mean score for vigor (M±SD: 4.02±1.424). There was a strong statistically significant positive relationship between transformational and transactional leadership styles and staff nurses' levels of work engagement (r=0.591, r=0.517, P=0.000), respectively, while there was a negative but not statistically significant relationship between laissez-faire leadership style and staff nurses' levels of work engagement (r=-0.023 and p=0.64). Nurse managers who utilize transformational and transactional leadership approaches to empower and collaborate with staff nurses can improve organizational performance.

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Leadership styles, Work engagement, Staff nurses, Nurse managers, Governmental hospitals

 Article History: Received 9 June 2022, Received in revised form 16 September 2022, Accepted 22 September 2022

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 Compliance with ethical standards

 Ethical considerations:

The current research has been approved by the supporting university and the Health Affairs Directorate of participating hospital. Moreover, the authors have obtained official permission to use the study tools. Staff nurses were assured that filling out the questionnaires had no bearing on their job status. Each staff nurse was given an invitation and consent form to review at the time of data collection. Staff nurses were advised that participation in the study is completely optional, that privacy and confidentiality are guaranteed, and that they can withdraw at any time. After the data was gathered and coded, the researcher kept it on a password-protected computer. Furthermore, the answers of the staff nurses in the questionnaires were through the link attached to the E-mail, and this link was specially created only for the researcher no allowed to another one read the information, and this guarantees the privacy of the staff nurses who participated in the study. 

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Mohammed Asiri A, Mahran SM, and Elseesy NA (2023). A study of staff nurses' perceptions of nursing leadership styles and work engagement levels in Saudi general hospitals. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 10(1): 55-61

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