MEDIATING ROLE OF TRUST IN LINKING TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP STYLE AND NURSES’ PERFORMANCE

Yasir Hayat Mughal

Yasir Hayat Mughal Department of Health Administration, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, Qassim University, SAUDI ARABIA

Keywords: Transformational leadership Style, Trust, Nurses, Performance, Social Exchange Theory, Hospitals, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating indirect effect of trust between leadership style and nurses performance. Population of this study was nurses working in the Qassim province in public and private sector hospitals and primary health care centers. Non-probability convenience sampling technique was used to select sample. Total 100 completed questionnaires were received and used in statistical analysis. Reliability analysis found that questionnaires used in the study were found reliable. Moreover, trust partially mediated between idealized influence behavior attribute of the leadership while fully mediated between other attributes of the transformational leadership and nurses’ performance. It is concluded that leadership in hospitals & primary health care centers should create strong bond with nurses and win their trust to boost nurses’ performance. It is imperious for hospital management to develop better relationship to brings better outcomes. Therefore health practitioners take benefits from this study finding. The trusted leaders’ have high leadership effectiveness and they retain the productive workforce. It is recommended for the future studies to use other leadership styles as the predicting variable such as servant leadership, distributed and Ihsan based leadership styles.