Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia
Vol. 17 No. 1: MARCH 2021

Leadership Style of Head Nurses against Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Staff Nurses

Lili Amaliah (Faculty of Medicine, Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University)
Iluminada Fajardo Castigador (Graduate school, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City)
Benjamin Yngente (Graduate school, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City)
Maria Linda Buhat (Graduate school, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City)
Theofile Salcedo (Graduate school, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City)
Eufemia F Octaviano (Graduate school, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City)
Allan Yngente (St.Joseph’s College, Quezon City)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Mar 2021

Abstract

The leadership and motivation styleis an essential factor in supporting the performance of nurses. The study was undertaken to determine the correlation between the leadership style to the job satisfaction, and organizational commitment among the head nurses and staff nurses from the government and private hospitals in Serang, Banten, Indonesia. The study used descriptive corelational design. The samples were limited, involving 289 respondents from dr. Drajat Prawiranegara Hospital, Serang (18 head nurses and 183 staff nurses) and Sari Asih Hospital, Serang (6 head nurses and 82 staff nurses). The study found a low positive relationship of the head nurses' transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style against the staff nurses' job satisfaction, r-coefficients of 0.370 and 0.485, respectively. Also, a moderate positive correlation was found on transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style of the head nurses against the organizational commitment of the staff nurses, rcoefficient of 0.606 and 0.609, respectively. It suggested that the staff nurses should be more responsive to the duty inseparable from the rights and obligations as an employee while the head nurse needs to pay attention to physical readiness, mental and psychological of subordinates.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

mkmi

Publisher

Subject

Public Health

Description

Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia accepts scientific papers in the form of research reports (original research papers) with a focus on the development of public health issues problems in Indonesia, including the developments and main problems in the field of epidemiology; Health Promotion; ...