Testing the effects of an empowerment-based leadership development programme: part 2 - staff outcomes.
J Nurs Manag
; 22(1): 16-28, 2014 Jan.
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ABSTRACT
AIM:
To determine if nurse leaders' attendance at a leadership development programme based on an empowerment framework would increase staff perceptions of organisational support and organisational commitment.BACKGROUND:
Leadership empowering behaviours are teachable relational competencies that have been associated with quality leader-staff relationships and positive staff outcomes.METHODS:
A quasi-experimental, pre-test-post-test design was used to compare perceptions of staff whose leaders participated in a year-long leadership programme with staff of similar leaders who did not attend the programme. A series of multiple regression analyses were used to test the conceptual model of programme effects.RESULTS:
Leaders' programme participation was directly associated with greater staff organisational commitment 1 year after the programme. Both programme attendance and leader-empowering behaviours were found to act as independent catalysts for staff empowerment, with structural empowerment partially mediating the effects of leader empowering behaviours on organisational commitment.CONCLUSIONS:
Leader participation in a development programme based on an empowerment framework may be an important means of increasing staff organisational commitment, a key predictor of staff turnover. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSE MANAGEMENT Leadership development programmes should emphasize relational competencies, including leader empowering behaviours, given their potential for enhancing organisational commitment.
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MEDLINE
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Nurs Manag
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá