title: The influence of authentic leadership and areas of worklife on work engagement of registered nurses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationships among nurses' perceptions of nurse managers' authentic leadership, nurses' overall person-job match in the six areas of worklife and their work engagement.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Reports have highlighted the impact of demanding and unsupportive work environments on nurses' wellbeing, resulting in a need for strong nursing leadership to build sustainable and healthier work environments.
  
  
  METHODS
  A secondary analysis of data collected from a non-experimental, predictive design survey of a random sample of 280 registered nurses working in acute care hospitals was conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An overall person-job match in the six areas of worklife fully mediated the relationship between authentic leadership and work engagement. Further, authentic leadership, overall person-job match in the six areas of worklife and years of nursing experience explained 33.1% of the variance in work engagement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings suggest that nurses who work for managers demonstrating higher levels of authentic leadership report a greater overall person-job match in the six areas of worklife and greater work engagement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  As nurse managers' play a key role in promoting work engagement among nurses, authentic leadership development for nurse managers focusing on self-awareness, relational transparency, ethics and balanced processing would be beneficial.
authors: South West Community Care Access Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors: Megan
authors: M
authors: Bamford
authors: Carol A
authors: CA
authors: Wong
authors: Heather
authors: H
authors: Laschinger
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D017008:Negotiating; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological; D016526:Workload; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology