title: Nursing leadership style and psychosocial work environment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study examines the relationship between leadership style and the psychosocial work environment of registered nurses.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Research consistently supports the positive relationship between transformational leadership style and job satisfaction. There is less evidence, which identifies the relationship between leadership style and psychosocial work environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5× was used to identify the leadership style. The Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire was used to measure psychosocial work environment dimensions. Statistical analysis included Pearson's r correlation between leadership style and psychosocial work environment and anova to analyse group means.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There is a significant correlation between leadership style and 22 out of the 37 dimensions of the psychosocial work environment. This correlation was significant ranging from r = 0.88, P < 0.01 to r = 0.18, P < 0.05. Nurses divided into groups based on transformational leadership scores of the immediate supervisor report significant differences in their psychosocial work environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study supports the significant correlation between leadership style and psychosocial work environment for registered nurses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study suggest that there would be an improvement in the nursing psychosocial work environment by implementation of transformational and contingent reward leadership behaviours.
authors.affiliation: Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. terrymalloyfnp@registerednurses.com
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Malloy
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Penprase
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D012931:Social Environment; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace