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Abstract
This study aims at identifying leadership styles prevailing in Middle
Delta university hospitals, as well as identifying nurses’ level of job
involvement. Also this study aims at exploring the nature of the relationship
between leadership styles (transactional, transformational, and servant
leadership) and nurses’ job involvement at the university hospitals under the
research , as the research problem is that here is a low level of nurses’ job
involvement, who are working in Middle Delta university hospitals,
accompanied with the lack of sufficient awareness on the part of managers to
the appropriate leadership styles that should be adapted to improve the level
of nurses’ job involvement.
The required primary data for this study was obtained through a
questionnaire distributed over a sample of 500 nurses working in Middle
Delta university hospitals (Menoufia university hospitals, Tanta university
hospitals, and Mansoura university hospitals), and the response rate was
about 83%. In order to test research hypotheses, the researcher employed
appropriate statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics, and multiple
discrimnant analysis technique to detect the extent of discrimination between
university hospitals (Menoufia, Tanta, and Mansoura) according to both
leadership styles prevailing in them and nurses’ level of job involvement.
In addition, multiple correlation and regression analysis were used to
identify the nature of the relationship between leadership styles
(transactional, transformational, and servant leadership) and nurses’ level of
job involvement at Middle Delta university hospitals. Further, the one-way
analysis of variance was used to determine whether there are any differences
in respondents’ attitudes concerning the level of job involvement in terms of
their demographic characteristics (gender, age, marital status, educational
level, and years of experience).
The findings of this study revealed that there is a statistically
significant discrimination between university hospitals under the research
(Menoufia, Tanta, and Mansoura) according to the leadership styles
prevailing in them, where Mansoura university hospitals were distinctive in
both transformational and servant leadership styles, while Menoufia
university hospitals were distinctive in transactional leadership style.
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Also, findings of this study indicated that there is a statistically
significant discrimination between university hospitals under the research
(Menoufia, Tanta & Mansoura) according to nurses’ level of job
involvement, where the members of the nursing staff at the Menoufia
university hospitals were more involved than their colleagues, and this can be
traced to the transactional leadership style prevalent in these hospitals.
In addition, results showed that there is a statistically significant
positive relationship between leadership styles (transactional,
transformational and servant leadership) and nurses’ job involvement at
hospitals under the research, but transactional leadership was the most
influential style in the nursing staff’s practice of job involvement, followed
by transformational leadership, and then servant leadership. In particular, it
was found that the most influential dimensions in the level of job
involvement were contingent reward, active management by exception,
idealized influence, inspirational motivation, service, and humility.
Finally, results showed that there are significant differences among
the respondents’ attitudes concerning the level of job involvement in terms of
their age, educational level, and years of experience, where nurses who are
older and have post graduate degree were more involved than others. Also
nurses with work experience less than 5 years seem to have a better
perception of job involvement than their colleagues.
In light of the previous results, the present study presented a number of
recommendations, the most important of which are that top management in
health care sector must be concerned about continuously investing in
leadership development programs in order to improve their leadership skills,
in addition to urging administrative leaders to adopt the most appropriate and
influential leadership styles in employees’ desirable attitudes such as
transactional leadership style. The study also recommended that university
hospitals should strive to create an appropriate work environment based on
cooperation and taking into consideration the interests of the workers, in a
way that does not conflict with the general welfare of hospitals, in such a
way as to improve the level of the employees’ job involvement because it has
a return on the quality of medical service provided to patients,