Organizational Behavior 2023

  "The effect of leadership styles on employees’ innovative work behaviour"   This study analyzed the impact on employees’ innovative work in a university, under 3 different leadership styles: transformational, transactional, and laisser-faire. The analysis based its discoveries in questionnaires to sample 461 employees in which the results were stunning for transformational style, but incredible negative for transactional and laisse-fair styles. Why analyzing employees to acknowledge about their innovative work? Because from a business perspective, organizational creativity is linked to the creative behaviour of employees: every good idea begins in the mind of an individual. But it also requires a guide, a leader to focus commitment to create something. Therefore, leadership and creativity go hand in hand . Leaders influence employee behaviour and employee behaviour influences the success of a company. It is a correlation .  The complexity of today’s business environm

Article Summary: “Leadership Styles and Nurses’ Job Satisfaction. Results of a Systematic Review” In healthcare organizations, leadership results major because it affects all actors interacting (nurses, patients, doctors, families, employees) and determine quality indicators of health services. So, why centered the study in nurses? Because they represent the largest professional body of workers within healthcare systems, playing a key role in quality standards, patient satisfaction, and employee turnover. The cited article studied nurses, job satisfaction, and leadership styles in organizations throughout the systematic review of 12 studies – over 11,813 revised in English and Italian – showing that leadership styles linked nurses to job satisfaction in an 88%.  The research question included (a) nurses working in hospitals, (b) uses of diverse leadership styles by nurse coordinators/managers/leaders, and (c) the effects of nurses’ satisfaction. The leadership styles  analyzed