Head Nurse Leadership Style with Staff Nurse Burnout and Job Satisfaction in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Occupational stress, job satisfaction, and working environment among Icelandic nurses: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey

“…These items are almost identical to the ones found to be the major source of general stress among Irish nurses (Wynne et al, 1993). The finding that greater satisfaction with head nurses lessened total stress supports the findings from a number of studies that have identified the importance of head nurses and their leadership style in reducing stress among their staff (Decker, 1997;Duxbury et al, 1984;Bakker et al, 2000, Stordeur et al, 2001. In a study on Japanese nurses Lambert et al (2001) found that the less work experience the nurses had the more workload they experienced.…”

Relationship Between Nursing Managers’ Leadership Styles and Nurses’ Job Burnout: A Study at Shahid Dr. Faghihi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran

“…Two dimensions of leadership behavior are "consideration" and "initiating structure" (19). Burns proposed the concepts of transactional and transformational styles of leadership (20).…”

Running Head: Destructive Leader Behavior in the Norwegian Armed Forces

“…Burnout is often described as three-dimensional, consisting of a) exhaustion (considered the core component of burnout [33], b) cynicism, and c) professional efficacy [34]. Symptoms include extreme fatigue, indifference and distancing which may cause absenteeism and somatic symptoms as well as reduced work performance [32,35]. Metaanalysis has also indicated a negative relationship between burnout and organizational commitment [31].…”