THE EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP STYLE, WORK ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG NURSES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Abstract

The impact of nurse managers’ leadership style and the work environment created on organizational commitment among Nurses cannot be overemphasized. It is critical for nurse managers to exhibit good leadership skills in order to motivate their nursing staffs as this would definitely increase service quality in hospitals. Nowadays nurses do not provide quality service to patients as a result of bad work environment and leadership styles of nurse managers. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the effect of leadership styles of nurse managers, work environment on nurses’ organizational commitment. This systematic review study was conducted by searching published articles from 2015 to 2021 from database including PubMed, MEDLINE, Google Scholar, EBSCHO, AJOL, PsycINFO and Science Direct in the month of October 2021. The key words used were “leadership style”, “work environment” and “organizational commitment”. The inclusion criteria were articles published during the period of 2015-2021, English, full text, open access journal, and research locations at hospitals. From screening of titles and abstracts, the selected articles were included in this review. Results of this research reveal the significant positive relationship between leadership style and nurse's organizational commitment or between work environment and nurses’ organizational commitment. The review revealed that leadership styles of nurse managers have positive effects on organizational commitment of nurses. Also, by providing a good work environment, nurses tend to be more committed towards the organization by working with their all.