Resonant leadership and workplace empowerment: the value of positive organizational cultures in reducing workplace incivility.

TLDR

Nursing leaders who foster positive, supportive environments retain an empowered, satisfied workforce and improve patient outcomes, nurse health, job satisfaction, commitment, and reduce exhaustion and turnover. The study confirms that resonant, positive leadership empowers nurses, reduces workplace incivility and burnout, and promotes retention, supporting the theory that such leadership practices create healthier work environments during nursing shortages.

Abstract

Nursing leaders are indispensable in creating positive nursing work environments that retain an empowered and satisfied nursing workforce. Positive and supportive leadership styles can lower patient mortality and improve nurses' health, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, emotional exhaustion, and intent to stay in their position. The results of this study support the role of positive leadership approaches that empower nurses and discourage workplace incivility and burnout in nursing work environments. The findings also provide empirical support for the notion of resonant leadership, a relatively new theory of relationship-focused leadership approaches. This research adds to the growing body of knowledge documenting the key role of positive leadership practices in creating healthy work environments that promote retention of nurses in a time of a severe nursing shortage.