Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support
Abstract Leadership styles have often been proven to support employees in performing their duties better and with more efficiency while enabling them to have extended organizational tenures. Staff nurses are an essential resource of hospitals to ensure proper administration and quality patient healt...
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| author | Surabhila Pattali Jayendira P. Sankar Haitham Al Qahtani Nidhi Menon Shabana Faizal |
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| description | Abstract Leadership styles have often been proven to support employees in performing their duties better and with more efficiency while enabling them to have extended organizational tenures. Staff nurses are an essential resource of hospitals to ensure proper administration and quality patient health care. The study aims to determine how transformational and authentic leadership styles affect the staff nurses’ turnover intention in private hospitals. In addition, it also finds the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. An explanatory quantitative research design with a cross-sectional investigation and a stratified sampling strategy was used for the study. Data from 296 nurses from the eight chosen private hospitals in the Kingdom of Bahrain were gathered using a questionnaire with 24 items. Smart-PLS was employed to conduct PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) to measure direct and indirect effects. The result indicates that transformational, authentic leadership styles and perceived organizational support significantly negatively affect nurses’ turnover intention. The study confirms the negative moderating effect of perceived organizational support between transformational leadership and turnover intention and the positive moderating effect of perceived organizational support between authentic leadership and turnover intention. Managers should concentrate on the leadership style to avoid its impact on turnover intention. By considering human resource practices such as communication and training strategies to cope with the negative effect of turnover intention, organizations can enhance employee engagement, improve job satisfaction, and foster a more stable and productive work environment. The present research revealed the adverse impact of turnover intention within hospitals by examining its association with leadership styles. The research made a significant contribution to the existing literature by delving into the impact of leadership styles on turnover intention, focusing on the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. The study’s findings shed light on the intricate relationship between leadership practices and employee turnover, providing valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners in the field. The study used a cross-sectional design to collect data and ensured the absence of standard method variance. The research enhanced the social dominance theory (SDT) by examining how perceived organizational support moderates the relationship between leadership styles and turnover intention. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59806f89f3b345829d931b7a4f6dbf412024-03-05T18:05:40ZengBMCBMC Health Services Research1472-69632024-02-0124111310.1186/s12913-024-10674-0Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational supportSurabhila Pattali0Jayendira P. Sankar1Haitham Al Qahtani2Nidhi Menon3Shabana Faizal4College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, University of Technology BahrainCollege of Administrative and Financial Sciences, University of Technology BahrainVice President of Academic Affairs, University of Technology BahrainCollege of Administrative and Financial Sciences, University of Technology BahrainCollege of Administrative and Financial Sciences, University of Technology BahrainAbstract Leadership styles have often been proven to support employees in performing their duties better and with more efficiency while enabling them to have extended organizational tenures. Staff nurses are an essential resource of hospitals to ensure proper administration and quality patient health care. The study aims to determine how transformational and authentic leadership styles affect the staff nurses’ turnover intention in private hospitals. In addition, it also finds the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. An explanatory quantitative research design with a cross-sectional investigation and a stratified sampling strategy was used for the study. Data from 296 nurses from the eight chosen private hospitals in the Kingdom of Bahrain were gathered using a questionnaire with 24 items. Smart-PLS was employed to conduct PLS-SEM (partial least squares structural equation modeling) to measure direct and indirect effects. The result indicates that transformational, authentic leadership styles and perceived organizational support significantly negatively affect nurses’ turnover intention. The study confirms the negative moderating effect of perceived organizational support between transformational leadership and turnover intention and the positive moderating effect of perceived organizational support between authentic leadership and turnover intention. Managers should concentrate on the leadership style to avoid its impact on turnover intention. By considering human resource practices such as communication and training strategies to cope with the negative effect of turnover intention, organizations can enhance employee engagement, improve job satisfaction, and foster a more stable and productive work environment. The present research revealed the adverse impact of turnover intention within hospitals by examining its association with leadership styles. The research made a significant contribution to the existing literature by delving into the impact of leadership styles on turnover intention, focusing on the moderating effect of perceived organizational support. The study’s findings shed light on the intricate relationship between leadership practices and employee turnover, providing valuable insights for both scholars and practitioners in the field. The study used a cross-sectional design to collect data and ensured the absence of standard method variance. The research enhanced the social dominance theory (SDT) by examining how perceived organizational support moderates the relationship between leadership styles and turnover intention.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10674-0Transformational leadershipAuthentic leadershipPerceived organizational supportTurnover intention |
| spellingShingle | Surabhila Pattali Jayendira P. Sankar Haitham Al Qahtani Nidhi Menon Shabana Faizal Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support BMC Health Services Research Transformational leadership Authentic leadership Perceived organizational support Turnover intention |
| title | Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| title_full | Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| title_fullStr | Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| title_full_unstemmed | Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| title_short | Effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals: the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| title_sort | effect of leadership styles on turnover intention among staff nurses in private hospitals the moderating effect of perceived organizational support |
| topic | Transformational leadership Authentic leadership Perceived organizational support Turnover intention |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10674-0 |
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