The impact of leader-member exchange quality, empowerment, and core self-evaluation on nurse manager's job satisfaction.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study is to test a theoretical model linking nurse managers' perceptions of the quality of the relationship with their supervisors, and empowerment to job satisfaction, and to examine the effect of a personal dispositional variable, core self-evaluation, on the relationships among these variables.


BACKGROUND
Nursing leadership roles have been transformed as a result of dramatic changes within healthcare in the past decade, yet research on the nature of nurse manager work life in current work environments is limited.


METHODS
A nonexperimental, predictive design was used in a sample of 141 hospital-based nurse managers obtained from a provincial registry.


RESULTS
Approximately 40.4% of the variance in job satisfaction was explained by leader-member exchange quality (LMX), empowerment, and core self-evaluation.


CONCLUSIONS
Higher quality relationships with their immediate supervisor were associated with greater manager structural and psychological empowerment and, consequently, greater job satisfaction. Core self-evaluation played a strong significant role, affecting all components of the model. The results suggest that both situational and personal factors are important determinants of satisfying work environments for nurse managers.
Laschinger
Heather K Spence
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School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. hkl@uwo.ca
Purdy
Nancy
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Joan
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D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D014481:United States