The relationship between multidimensional leadership and burnout among nursing staff
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AIM AND BACKGROUND: The purpose was to explore the relationship between multidimensional leadership and burnout among nursing staff. There exists little research evidence of the relation between these phenomena. METHOD: The study used a non-experimental survey design. The sample consisted of 601 nurses and nurse managers working in different health care organizations. RESULTS: Rewarding transformational leadership seems to protect particularly from depersonalization. Active management-by-exception protected from depersonalization and increased personal accomplishment. Passive laissez-faire leadership functioned as an exposing factor for emotional exhaustion as well as a decreasing factor for personal accomplishment. However, the employment status and the character of work tasks affected the connection between leadership and burnout. CONCLUSIONS: The relation between leadership and burnout is complex, affected by situational factors of leadership and the ambiguous nature of burnout. Nurses of various ages, at different stages of career development and participating in different work tasks require different kinds of leadership.
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Active management-by-exception is beneficial for Depersonalisation and Personal Accomplishment.
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Passive laissez-faire leadership negatively affects Emotional Exhaustion and Personal Accomplishment.
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Rewarding transformational leadership protects from Depersonalisation.
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- Authors
- KANSTE, O., KYNGÄS, H., & NIKKILÄ, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Oulu (FI)
- Venue
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Publisher
- Hindawi Limited
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 731-739
- ISSN
- 0966-0429 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2834
- OpenAlex
- W1966945423
- Cited by
- 151
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Nursing Management (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Emil Aaltosen Säätiö
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Research and Theory › Nursing education and management
- Keywords
- burnout, nurses, transformational leadership, management by exception, laissez-faire leadership, depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, personal accomplishment, nurse managers, employment status, career development
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude of Health Personnel, Burnout, Professional, Employment, Female, Finland, Humans, Interprofessional Relations, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Male, Mental Health, Middle Aged, Nurse Administrators, Nursing Staff, Nursing, Supervisory, Surveys and Questionnaires, Regression Analysis, Risk Factors, Social Support, Nursing Administration Research, Nursing Methodology Research, Occupational Health, Nurse's Role
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