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Abstract
Leader member exchange (LMX) is a factor affects staff nurses perception about different aspects of their organization. LMX affects Perception of organizational support, good relationships should be established between managers and followers to achieve competitive advantages. Furthermore, supervisor and subordinate should set mutual work related goals which will develop a higher quality relationship between supervisor and subordinates (Stone et al., 2023).
This study aimed to assess the relation between leader-member exchange and job involvement among staff nurses through assessing leader-member exchange level among staff nurses, assessing job involvement level among staff nurses and Finding out relation between leader-member exchange and job involvement among staff nurses.
A descriptive correlational design was used to carry out this study. The study was conducted at cardiovascular hospital, affiliated to Ain Shams University hospitals. The study conducted at 9 units in cardiovascular hospital. The study population consisted of 119 staff nurses working in a mentioned the settings at the time of data collection. Data were collected by using two tools namely leader Member Exchange survey and job involvement scale.
The study result revealed the following:
• Indicated that more than one quarter of the studied nurses (26%) had high total perception level regarding of leader member exchange, and more than one quarter of them (27%) had moderate level, while less than half of them (47%) had low total perception level regarding of leader member exchange
• Less than one quarter of the studied nurses (22%) had high total of Job involvement level, and more than half of them (52%) had moderate level, while more than one quarter of them (26%) had low total of Job involvement level.
• There were significant statistically relations between the total studied staff nurses’ leader member exchange perception and their age, years of experience and marital status. There was significant statistically relations between total studied staff nurses’ job involvement and their years of experience and marital status.
• There was highly statistically significant positive correlation between total studied staff nurses’ leader member exchange and the total studied nurses’ job involvement.
Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations are proposed:
• Nurse Managers have to develop respectful, friendship relation with their staff.
• Meet with staff nurses to listen to their problems and give them feedback about their performances
• Provide fairly incentives system for appreciating positive behaviors of employees.
• Delegate some tasks for staff nurses in level of their abilities to increase staff nurses participation in work and develop skills.
• Apply educational awareness sessions for hospital leaders to learn how to create positive working conditions and improve spiritual level among staff nurses.