title: Situational leadership: a management system to increase staff satisfaction.
abstract: Using the principles of Situational Leadership, nurse managers can deal with people and situations effectively and flexibly--helping to retain nurses on their units. Based on the manager's assessment of the nurse's ability and willingness for a specific task, each nurse falls into one of four readiness quadrants. Each quadrant predicts a corresponding leadership style: telling, selling, participating, or delegating. Nurse managers need to use different combinations of task behavior and relationship behavior for each corresponding leadership style.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zurlinden
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bongard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Magafas
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D009042:Motivation; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000379:methods*; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods