Volume 26, Issue 123, May 2022

Leadership styles and job satisfaction among nurses of medical-surgical departments in the Qassim region hospitals in Saudi Arabia

Mohammed Abdullah Alrasheedi¹, Fahad Moteb Alrashaidi², Mahmoud Abdel Hameed Shahin^3♦

¹Nursing department, Bukayriyah General Hospital in Qassim Region, Bukayriyah 52725, Saudi Arabia
²Public Health Department, Qassim Health Affairs and the Ministry of Health, Buraydah 52367, Saudi Arabia
³Department of Nursing, Mohammed Al-Mana College for Medical Sciences, Dammam 34222, Saudi Arabia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Nursing, Mohammed Al-Mana College for Medical Sciences, Dammam 34222, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Objective: To discover the type of leadership style (transformational vs. transactional) of nurse leaders and how it affects the work satisfaction of Medical-Surgical nurses working in public hospitals in Qassim Region, KSA. Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to collect data over three month’s duration. The following tools were utilized to be able to have an outcome of the research study; a multifactorial leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and a job satisfaction survey (JSS) with a demographic’s datasheet. The convenience sampling technique was employed for this study and the study recruited exactly 437 participants. This study was conducted in MOH hospitals; King Fahad Specialist Hospital (KFSH), Buraydah Central Hospital (BCH), and King Saud Hospital (KSH) in Qassim Region, KSA. The study used SPSS software to analyze the numeric data via using the following tests: descriptive analysis, Cronbach’s alpha, Pearson correlation, and Linear regression. Results: The result showed that leadership style was significant predictor of nurses' job satisfaction; transformational leadership (t = 3.50, p < 0.01) was more effective for predicting job satisfaction than transactional leadership (t = 2.43, p < 0.05). The result of JSS was measured by 36 items using a 6-point Likert scale, and the overall score was M = 3.49 ± 1.30, a moderate level. Conclusion: To sum up, this study recommended improving leadership style among nurse managers, administrators, and supervisors, more particularly, the adoption of the transformational technique to improve staff job satisfaction, encourage them to stay in their current job, and enhance their self-progress in the profession.

Keywords: Nurses, Job Satisfaction, Leadership Styles, Medical-Surgical Department, Qassim Region, and Saudi Arabia

Medical Science, 2022, 26, ms199e2281

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v26i123/ms199e2281

Published: 30 May 2022