Abstract:
Valuable nursing management stimulates staff withholding, job contentment, loyalty, workplace culture and patient satisfaction with nursing services. The purpose of this study is to understand the perception of leadership style on work commitment among nurses working in a hospital in Pakistan. The objectives that guided the study were; to investigate whether nurses perceive their managers being leaders in their organization, how nurses think the leaders can affect their work commitment, qualities of a leader, factors increasing work dedication. In-depth qualitative interviews with nurses from a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The study followed the qualitative research approach. Sources in research included detailed interviews with nurses and previous research. The analysis was carried out, accounted as having qualitative nature. The study followed the qualitative research approach by using the consecutive sampling technique, having 22 participants. Thematic Analysis method was used in the study. It is usually applied to a set of texts, such as interview transcripts. The researcher closely examines the data to identify common themes – topics, ideas and patterns of meaning that come up repeatedly. The leadership style significantly mediates the work commitment. Overall, the results imply that the hospital guiding principle should be obliged to work on leadership styles of managers and nurse empowerment to enhance work commitment among nurses. The major themes included: traits of leaders, lead the team, role modeling, teaching and training, motivation, factors influencing work commitment and nursing background. Study findings suggest that leadership style of the leader, role-modeling, motivation, rewards in the form of appreciation and motivation to empower nurses could play an influential role in boosting work commitment of nurses working in health care settings. The findings of this study will contribute in the healthcare hospital by upgrading the insightful influences of leadership styles on work commitment amid nursing staff. This study would provide insight for healthcare managers who look out ways to boost work commitment among nurses.