A Review of Research on Self-leadership in Nurses'

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to review journal articles, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations on self-leadership in nurses in order to identify overall trends in nursing self-leadership and to suggest strategies to improve self-leadership. Methods: Twenty-six papers on self-leadership in nurses were reviewed. Results: These papers were journal articles, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations regarding nurses who worked in general hospitals, university hospitals, and public health centers. Self-leadership was measured by using instruments developed by Manz (1983), Prussia, Anderson, & Manz (1998), and Houghton & Neck (2002). The instrument was composed of 18 items, with a 5-point Likert scale developed by Manz (1983) and modified by Kim (2002). Nurses' self-leadership was found to be related to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, nursing performance, and citizenship behavior. General characteristics of nurses, including age, education, marital status, position, and career, were also associated with self-leadership. Conclusion: The study findings provide data on recent trends in nurses' selfleadership. These results serve as basic data to provide a standard for developing self-leadership and indicate directions for further research.

Impact of self‐efficacy on the self‐leadership of nursing preceptors: The mediating effect of job embeddedness

“…In this study, self‐leadership was higher for those over 40 years of age than for those 39 and under, and self‐leadership was higher when academic achievement, clinical experience and preceptor experience were higher. These findings are consistent with those of a previous study that showed that the higher the age, career level and education level, the greater the self‐leadership of nurses (Won & Cho, ). Self‐leadership, unlike personality characteristics can change with training (Neck & Houghton, ); the higher the career and education level, the more autonomous power there is to increase learning ability and achievement as part of continuous self‐development efforts.…”

“…Self‐leadership, unlike personality characteristics can change with training (Neck & Houghton, ); the higher the career and education level, the more autonomous power there is to increase learning ability and achievement as part of continuous self‐development efforts. These results suggest that self‐leadership is thereby enhanced (Won & Cho, ), and a similar phenomenon seems to hold for nursing preceptors.…”

“…This mediating effect is supported by a study of the association between nurse turnover intentions related to self-efficacy and job embeddedness (Vardaman et al, 2018) and a study that predicted nursing retention based on job embeddedness (Hopson et al, 2018). Nurses' self-leadership increased their job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and productivity and efficiency in nursing work (Won & Cho, 2013).…”

“…This mediating effect is supported by a study of the association between nurse turnover intentions related to self‐efficacy and job embeddedness (Vardaman et al, ) and a study that predicted nursing retention based on job embeddedness (Hopson et al, ). Nurses’ self‐leadership increased their job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and productivity and efficiency in nursing work (Won & Cho, ). In particular, as turnover intention has a higher negative correlation with self‐leadership than self‐esteem, nurses’ self‐leadership promotion can serve as a means of reducing turnover intention and increasing organizational commitment and job satisfaction (Kang, Choi, Park, & Kim, ).…”

Relationship between Positive Affectivity, Self-Leadership, and Satisfaction of Clinical Practice among Nursing Students

“…셀프리더 십에 대한 연구는 주로 경영학에서 시작되었고, 간호조직을 대상으로 연구를 한 결과 간호사의 직무만족, 조직몰입을 높 이고 간호업무의 효율성과 생산성 향상을 증진시키는 것으로 나타났다 (Won & Cho, 2013). 또한, 간호 대학생의 임상실습 스트레스를 감소시키고 문제 해결과 대학생활 적응을 도우며, 개인의 발전에 지속적으로 긍정적 영향을 주는 것으로 나타 났다 (Lee & Cho, 2012;Won & Cho, 2013;Yang & Moon, 2011).…”