Transformational and transactional leadership styles in enhancing nurse educator’s job satisfaction: An integrative analysis
The challenges confronting Malaysia’s nursing training colleges in their futuristic movement towards world class institutions were enormous. Among such challenges were job satisfaction and retention of nurse educators. As nursing education increased its’ complexity, leadership styles employed in...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/53704/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/53704/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/53704/9/53704.pdf |
| Summary: | The challenges confronting Malaysia’s nursing training colleges in their futuristic
movement towards world class institutions were enormous. Among such
challenges were job satisfaction and retention of nurse educators. As nursing
education increased its’ complexity, leadership styles employed in these nursing
training institutions played a crucial role in achieving nurse educators’ job
satisfaction. This paper examined the influence of transformational and
transactional leadership style employed by nursing academic leaders on nurse
educator’s job satisfaction. This research employed a qualitative method
together with documents and observations. Purposive sampling was undertaken in
selecting nine nurse educators from three nursing colleges from Johor and
Melaka. Data from the interview were then summarized in answering nurse
educators' job satisfaction and perceived leadership styles and practices of
nursing academic leaders. The responses from the verbatim transcriptions were
analysed using the software Atlas Ti. The strong relationship between nursing
academic leadership styles and nurse educators’ job satisfaction suggested that
the academic nursing transformational leadership style played a prominent role
on subordinates’ job satisfaction and that nursing academic leaders’
transformational leadership practices and attributes had the ability to encourage
subordinates to achieve more than what they planned. Transactional leadership
practised by the nursing academic leaders indicated a very weak link to
subordinates job satisfaction as the leaders’ emphasis on payoffs for performance
and corrective actions were not as acceptable to that transformational
leadership attributes practised by the leaders. The study uncovered effective
leadership was enacted via engaging leadership where the engaging leader
enabled the development of an organization modelled by a culture of integrity, |
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