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 Volume 9, Issue 11 (November 2022), Pages: 1-9

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 Original Research Paper

 Integrating leadership with work engagement in nursing: A correlational study

 Author(s): Alfredo Z. Feliciano 1, Evelyn E. Feliciano 1, 2, *, Abdallah Osman 3, Isabelito A. Nabong 1, Jasleen S. Yumang 1, Angela P. Apostol 1, Rolando L. Lopez Jr. 1, Fritzie F. Salunga 1, Myron L. Roque 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1College of Nursing and Faculty of Graduate Studies, Angeles University Foundation, Angeles City, 2009, Philippines
 2College of Dentistry and Nursing, Vision Colleges Edu. Co., Riyadh City, 11691, Saudi Arabia
 3Faculty of Nursing, Najran University, Najran City, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9120-1534

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.11.001

 Abstract:

This study aimed at determining the relationship between leadership and the work engagement of nurses. This descriptive-correlational study was designed with 325 purposive nurse samples from participating three selected Philippine institutional provinces collected between March and June 2020 using Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) instruments. Mainly perceived as having moderate level transformational (216 or 66.5%), transactional (214 or 65.8%), and passive-avoidant (227 or 69.8%) leadership, nurses were specifically regarded as highly inspirational motivators (score=8.22; SD+1.873) and content with standard performance (management-by-exception, score=8.09; SD+1.995) than being passive-avoidant (score=7.02; SD+1.916). Using IBM SPSS v.26, the study utilized a chi-square test of association which found out that all three nurses’ leadership styles and their factors were statistically significant with their overall work engagement (p=.000) and its domains namely, vigor (p=.000), dedication (p=.000), and absorption (p=.000) with moderate-, relatively strong-, and strong associations. Nurses’ multifactorial leadership and work engagement were suggestive interrelated characteristics that demonstrate an increasing level of leadership congruent with a higher level of work engagement. Hence, this study offers a remarkable hypothetical underpinning nurses’ opportunity to assume leadership roles and functions to improve their overall work engagement.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Motivation, Leadership, Nursing administrators, Job satisfaction, Work engagement

 Article History: Received 29 March 2022, Received in revised form 8 July 2022, Accepted 12 July 2022

 Acknowledgment 

All authors would like to thank hospital staff nurses in Philippine private and non-private institutions, who voluntarily and willingly participated in the study. Likewise, to the Angeles University Foundation in giving support for the accomplishing the study entirety.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Informed consent: 

Informed consent was obtained from all nurses for the purpose of maintaining their rights to anonymity and confidentiality.

 Ethical consideration: 

The protocol of this study was submitted and reviewed by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Hafr Al Batin with approval no. 12 dated 24th February 2020 under a committee registration KACST No. H-05-FT-083. Respondents were informed of the study's purpose and its nature before informed consent is obtained with their right to anonymity, confidentiality, and refusal without being penalized once decided to withdraw at any time in the study.

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

Feliciano AZ, Feliciano EE, Osman A, Nabong IA, Yumang JS, Apostol AP, Lopez Jr. RL, Salunga FF, and Roque ML (2022). Integrating leadership with work engagement in nursing: A correlational study. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(11): 1-9

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