Abstract
Background: Leadership in nursing strongly influences healthcare quality and teamwork. Effective nurse leaders inspire and support their staff, fostering a positive work environment and improving patient outcomes. It involves motivating and guiding nurses to provide safe and compassionate care. The style of leadership adopted by nurse managers affects nurses’ performance, and interactions with patients and colleagues. This aim of study find out the effectiveness of different leadership styles transformational, transactional, democratic, autocratic, and laissez-faire among nurses at Peoples Medical College Hospital (PMCH), Nawabshah, and explores which styles most positively influence motivation, satisfaction, performance.
Methods: the study was qualitative cross-sectional study was conducted at pmch hospital Nawabshah. A total of 150 nurses were selected using a random sampling technique. Data were collected through a structured self-administered questionnaire to assessing different leadership styles and their influence on nurse’s motivation.
Results: The study Transformational behaviors such as inspiring the team work (44%,p-0.663) encouraging creativity (51%,p-0.023) promoting teamwork (52%, p-0.006), providing support (56%, p- 0.024), and acting ethically (48%) p-0.001) were well appreciated. Transactional practices like clear rules (50% p-0.346), rewarding performance (64%,p-0.075), and monitoring closely (66%, p-0.001) received moderate agreement. Laissez-faire elements, including independent decision making (76%, p-0.046) and minimal involvement (80%, p-0.338), show mixed perceptions. Independently (82%,p-0.397), little direction (78%p-0.768), minimal communication (84%, p-0.997), and leadership motivating nurses (72% p-0.908) also had high agreement. among staff.
Conclusion: The study concludes that leadership styles significantly influence effect of nurses’ motivation teamwork and the quality of patient care among nurses. Transformational leadership was found to be more effective than transactional and laissez-faire leadership in promoting better collaboration and improving patient care outcomes.