TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of the leader-member relationship and the organizational commitment of nurses
AU - Nunes, Elisabete Maria Garcia Teles
AU - Gaspar, Maria Filomena Mendes
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Objective: To understand the perception of the quality of leadership relationships and the organizational commitment of nurses, and to analyze the influence of this relationship quality. Method: Cross-sectional and correlational study, with a quantitative approach, using a non-probability convenience sampling with 408 nurses. The data were collected through questionnaires at Central Hospital in Lisbon, between January and March 2013. The statistical analysis of the data was carried out using IBM® SPSS® Statistics 19 software. Results: Three hundred forty-two questionnaires were considered valid. The quality of the leadership relationship was satisfactory, and the nurses were poorly committed to the organization. The quality of the leadership relationship was statistically correlated with organizational commitment: there was found a moderate association to affective commitment (rs=0.42, p < 0.05), a low association with the normative commitment (rs=0.37, p < 0.05), and a very low association with the calculative commitment (rs=0.14, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Leadership exerts influence on organizational commitment. An opportunity to improve the quality of the leadership relationship between nurses and their leaders was found, with the consequent possibility of developing organizational commitment.
AB - Objective: To understand the perception of the quality of leadership relationships and the organizational commitment of nurses, and to analyze the influence of this relationship quality. Method: Cross-sectional and correlational study, with a quantitative approach, using a non-probability convenience sampling with 408 nurses. The data were collected through questionnaires at Central Hospital in Lisbon, between January and March 2013. The statistical analysis of the data was carried out using IBM® SPSS® Statistics 19 software. Results: Three hundred forty-two questionnaires were considered valid. The quality of the leadership relationship was satisfactory, and the nurses were poorly committed to the organization. The quality of the leadership relationship was statistically correlated with organizational commitment: there was found a moderate association to affective commitment (rs=0.42, p < 0.05), a low association with the normative commitment (rs=0.37, p < 0.05), and a very low association with the calculative commitment (rs=0.14, p < 0.05). Conclusion: Leadership exerts influence on organizational commitment. An opportunity to improve the quality of the leadership relationship between nurses and their leaders was found, with the consequent possibility of developing organizational commitment.
KW - Hospitals
KW - Interprofessional relations
KW - Leadership
KW - Nursing
KW - Personnel administration
KW - Supervisory
KW - Liderança
KW - Supervisão de enfermagem
KW - Administração de Recursos Humanos em hospitais
KW - Relações interprofissionais
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U2 - 10.1590/S1980-220X2016047003263
DO - 10.1590/S1980-220X2016047003263
M3 - Article
C2 - 29267736
AN - SCOPUS:85045304827
SN - 0080-6234
VL - 51
JO - Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
JF - Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
M1 - e03263
ER -