Transformational Leadership In Health Care

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There is firm evidence to propose that due to persistent and often forced changes, nurses in healthcare settings have become stressed, disempowered and dissatisfied (Dignam, Duffield, Stasa, Gray, Jackson, & Daly, 2012). Managers and leaders have a central role not only to enhance the quality of care but also to improve work quality for healthcare staff (Dignam et al., 2012). Dignam at el., (2012), state that leadership is a process that focuses on achieving the goal or tasks by inspiring, encouraging and motivating individuals. The process involves leading and following between leaders and followers (Dignam et al., 2012). Leaders are challenge to address and best meet the demands of patients, therefore there is a need of efficient leadership …show more content…

Job performance of individuals assesses on the basis of the standards and benchmarks set by organisations (Bohlander et al., 2001). Employees’ are evaluated for their performance in terms of the tasks they were allocated, meeting the demand, achieving objective and productivity (Bohlander et al., 2001). Markos & Sridevi (2010) state that transformational leaders use charismatic qualities in order to increase job satisfaction, empowerment and job performance among staff. Literature indicates that transformational leaders have inspiring factor, impressionable influence, thoughtfulness, and intellectual abilities to enhance the sense of shared vision and improving job performance through productive efforts (Markos & Sridevi, …show more content…

Within healthcare settings, transformational leadership play a substantial role in promoting team and self-efficacy, job satisfaction and job performance. There is a plethora of information available on transformational leadership and staff performance. Salanova et al. (2011) found a positive relation between employees’ performance and transformational leadership. Transformational leaders promote a culture of openness, mutual trust and a bidirectional communication between leader and followers (Salanova et al., 2011). In terms of nursing practice, nursing leaders are expected to play a versatile role as a role model to enhance self efficacy among nurses (Salanova et al., 2011). There is evidence that transformational leadership is connected to self efficacy of nurses, health and well being and job satisfaction (Munir & Nielsen, 2009). Transformational leadership not only improves quality of care but also enhance job performance and job satisfaction among nurses (Salanova et al., 2011). Markos and Sridevi (2010) inform that transformational leadership encourage job engagement, job satisfaction and job performance. Salanova et al. (2011) reported the similar findings on impact of transformational leadership and job performance, job satisfaction and self efficacy as reported by Munir and

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