Evaluation of relationship between leadership style and job satisfaction amongst healthcare professionals

Abstract

Introduction: Leadership is viewed as a process by which people bring out the best in themselves. Transformational leadership, transactional leadership and laissez faire leadership are the three common leadership styles. Leadership styles are related to job satisfaction to varying degrees. Hence the overall aim of this study is to investigate relationship between the leadership style and job satisfaction amongst medical, dental and physiotherapy professionals working in same institute. Methodology: This is a questionnaire based descriptive study. Leadership style was evaluated using Bass's Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and job satisfaction was measured by Warr, Cook, and Wall's job satisfaction questionnaire. Result: The results show that both transformational and transactional leadership are positively related to job satisfaction, with correlations of 0.49 and 0.21, respectively. The two attributes negatively related with job satisfaction were transactional leadership (management by exception) lasseiz faire leadership with correlation of-0.120 and-0.160 respectively. Conclusion: The findings supported a strong relationship between various leadership styles and job satisfaction. This study highlights need for creating awareness about leadership style and job satisfaction and also training healthcare workers towards acquiring leadership skills to embrace challenges for high quality equitable health care.

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“…Coaching is located in the full range of leadership, as one of the four emphasized leader behaviours (Bass and Avolio, 1994): individualized consideration includes various tasks of the manager like helping the employee to develop his/her own strengths, suggesting training to improve his/her skills, enabling experiences for further development and actively giving feedback (Wang and Howell, 2010). Transformational leadership style is associated with a number of positive outcomes on a team-level such as higher job commitment, satisfaction and well-being (Skakon et al , 2010; Choi et al , 2016; Deshpande et al , 2018), patient safety and reduced adverse patient outcomes (Boamah et al , 2018). Besides transformational leadership, new leadership concepts like shared leadership or stewardship seem to be promising in interdisciplinary contexts (Mccallin, 2003; Lingard et al , 2012; Forsyth and Mason, 2017).…”