Leadership Behaviors, Organizational Commitment and Innovative Work Behaviors among Nurses

Abstract

Leadership behaviors have often been seen as a vital element that influences the level of commitment and innovative work behaviors of employees within the organization to achieve the organizational objectives.

This study: Aimed to determine the relationship between leadership behaviors, organizational commitment, and innovative work behaviors among nurses.

Design: A descriptive design was utilized in this study.

Setting: This study was conducted atBelbeis general hospital affiliated to ministry of health.

Subjects: A convenient sample of 100 staff nurses was used in this study.

Tools of data collection: Three tools were used:Multifactor leadership behaviors questionnaire, organizational commitment scale and innovative work behaviors questionnaire.

Results: Indicated that 75% of staff nurses had a positive perception of the transformational leadership behavior. As well, the majority of staff nurses had a high level of organizational commitment (84.0%). Additionally, 37 % of staff nurses had a high level of innovative work behaviors, while, 35% of them had a low level of innovative work behaviors.

Conclusion: Organizational commitment was positively and significantly correlated to transformational and transactional leadership behaviors. As well, there was statistically significant and positive correlation between innovative work behaviors and all multifactor leadership behaviors. Furthermore, transformational leadership behavior and organizational commitment were statistically significant positive predictors of staff nurses' innovative work behaviors.

Recommendations: The nurse manager should respond positively to nurses' innovative efforts by supporting them with the time and resources to carry out, and plan to increase the participation of staff nurses in decision-making process to promote their commitment and perception about leadership behaviors.