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Empowering leadership, perceived organizational support, trust, and job burnout for nurses: A study in an Italian general hospital

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Bobbio, Andrea, Bellan, Maria, Manganelli, Anna Maria·2012·Health Care Management Review

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BACKGROUND: A strong nursing leadership that instills trust in the leader and in the organization is an important component for an effective leadership, particularly for health care organizations, because trust defines the heart of health care workplaces by promoting patient safety, excellence in care, recruitment, and retention of the nursing staff. PURPOSE: This study aimed to test the impact of perceived empowerment leadership style expressed by the nurse supervisor, nurses' perceived organizational support, trust in the leader, and trust in the organization on nurses' job burnout. METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A group of 273 nurses from an Italian public general hospital took part in a cross-sectional study on a voluntary basis by filling out an anonymous questionnaire. FINDINGS: Empowering leadership was an important predictor of trust in the leader. Trust in the organization was influenced by perceived organizational support and by the Informing dimension of the empowering leadership style. Trust in the leader and trust in the organization showed a negative impact on job burnout and also mediated the effects of some empowering leadership dimensions and perceived organizational support on job burnout. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The central role of trust in health care organizations was corroborated, as well as the beneficial effects of adopting specific features of empowerment leadership behaviors toward the nursing staff. Empowering leadership could be successfully proposed in training programs directed to nurses' supervisors and health care managers.

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  • Low trust in the leader has a negative impact on burnout measured with a composite score.

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  • Trust in the organisation predicts lower burnout measured with a composite MBI score.

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Authors
Bobbio, A., Bellan, M., & Manganelli, A. M.
Affiliations
University of Padua (IT)
Venue
Health Care Management Review
Published
2012-01
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
77-87
ISSN
0361-6274 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2021357991
Cited by
146
References
35
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FWCI
19.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Health Care Management Review (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
Keywords
empowering leadership, perceived organizational support, trust in leadership, organizational trust, burnout, nurses, nursing supervisors, nursing leadership, mediation, hospital nursing staff
MeSH terms
Burnout, Professional, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Hospitals, General, Humans, Italy, Leadership, Male, Middle Aged, Nursing Staff, Hospital, Personnel Administration, Hospital, Surveys and Questionnaires, Trust

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