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Arch Hellen Med, 41(6), November-December 2024, 793-803 ORIGINAL PAPER The impact of transformational leadership on the job satisfaction of nursing Α. Dimitropoulou,1 P. Theodorou,2 C. Platis,2,3 G. Manomenidis,4 T. Bellali5 |
OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between job satisfaction level and transformational leadership style of nurses and administrators who work in public hospitals of the 6th and 7th Health Region in Greece.
METHOD The research involved 473 of the 625 (response rate: 70.9%) nurses and administrators to whom the specific questionnaire was distributed, working at the Panarcadian General Hospital of Tripoli and the General Hospital of Lasithi (Decentralized Organic units of Agios Nicolaos, Sitia and Ierapetra in Crete), under the responsibility of the 6th and 7th Health Region. The research was held from January to March 2022. A complex questionnaire based on the tools for measuring transformational leadership style was used to collect the data using part of the questions of the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ), the scale of the Kuopio University Hospital Job Satisfaction Scale (KUHJSS level) job satisfaction and questions recording their socio-demographic and professional data. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), version 25.0 was used for statistical analysis.
RESULTS The total scale of job satisfaction was found with an average of 3.83, which indicates very good job satisfaction while the average value of the scales of transformational leadership was moderate. The results showed that all components of job satisfaction and transformational leadership were positively correlated, with a strong or moderate correlation. The job hospital, the idealized influence and the inspiring motivation of the multifactorial leadership questionnaire, are predictive factors of the job satisfaction scale. At the same time, gender (women), service hospital (Decentralized Unit of Ierapetra), marital status (married), educational level (university graduates), years of service (16–25 years) and employment relationship (contract workers) were related statistically significant with the subscales of job satisfaction and transformational leadership style.
CONCLUSIONS The present results demonstrated significant challenges related to job satisfaction for nurses and administrators and highlighted the importance of the transformational leadership style contributing to the development of health services provided and increasing patient satisfaction.
Key words: Hospital administrators, Hospital leadership, Job satisfaction, Nurses, Transformational leadership.
