Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia

The challenges confronting Malaysia’s nursing training colleges in their futuristic movement towards world class institutions are enormous. Among such challenges are job satisfaction and retention of nurse educators. As nursing education increases its complexity, leadership styles employed in these...

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Main Authors:	Moey, Soo Foon, Daud, Khadijah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior
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spelling	iium-502272016-04-26T03:26:21Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50227/ Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia Moey, Soo Foon Daud, Khadijah HM1106 Interpersonal relations. Social behavior The challenges confronting Malaysia’s nursing training colleges in their futuristic movement towards world class institutions are enormous. Among such challenges are job satisfaction and retention of nurse educators. As nursing education increases its complexity, leadership styles employed in these nursing training institutions play a crucial role in achieving nurse educators’ job satisfaction and onward staff retention. This paper examines the influence of transformational and transactional leadership style employed by nursing academic leaders on nurse educator’s job satisfaction and onward staff retention. This mix mode study using a cross sectional survey design and via focus group interview obtains data from nurse educators in the nursing colleges under MOH (Ministry of Health, Malaysia). The responses from the questionnaires were analysed using SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) while that of the qualitative aspect by using the software Atlas Ti. The findings indicated that transformational leadership played a highly significant role as well as a mediating role between transactional leadership style and nurse educators job satisfaction. A proposed model of effective academic nursing leadership uncovered effective leadership is enacted via engaging leadership where the engaging leader enables the development of an organization modelled by a culture of integrity, transparency, accessibility and genuine valuing of others and that their contributions is concerned for the development and well-being of others. This study has helped paved the way concerned in understanding the importance of leadership development and training to improve leadership qualities of nursing academic leaders. 2015-06-04 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50227/1/Engaging_Leadership.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50227/4/50227.pdf Moey, Soo Foon and Daud, Khadijah (2015) Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia. In: 1st International Conference on Educational Studies (ICES-2015), 3rd-4th June 2015, Pulai Spring Resort, Johor Bahru. (Unpublished) http://www.fp.utm.my/ices2015/home.asp
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description	The challenges confronting Malaysia’s nursing training colleges in their futuristic movement towards world class institutions are enormous. Among such challenges are job satisfaction and retention of nurse educators. As nursing education increases its complexity, leadership styles employed in these nursing training institutions play a crucial role in achieving nurse educators’ job satisfaction and onward staff retention. This paper examines the influence of transformational and transactional leadership style employed by nursing academic leaders on nurse educator’s job satisfaction and onward staff retention. This mix mode study using a cross sectional survey design and via focus group interview obtains data from nurse educators in the nursing colleges under MOH (Ministry of Health, Malaysia). The responses from the questionnaires were analysed using SEM (Structural Equation Modelling) while that of the qualitative aspect by using the software Atlas Ti. The findings indicated that transformational leadership played a highly significant role as well as a mediating role between transactional leadership style and nurse educators job satisfaction. A proposed model of effective academic nursing leadership uncovered effective leadership is enacted via engaging leadership where the engaging leader enables the development of an organization modelled by a culture of integrity, transparency, accessibility and genuine valuing of others and that their contributions is concerned for the development and well-being of others. This study has helped paved the way concerned in understanding the importance of leadership development and training to improve leadership qualities of nursing academic leaders.
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author	Moey, Soo Foon Daud, Khadijah
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title	Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia
title_short	Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia
title_full	Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Engaging leadership: a step away from transformational leadership style in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction in Malaysia
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