Abstract:
Leadership style plays a role in staff intention to quit. The study examined the
relationship between leadership styles and nurses’ intention to quit at the Volta
Regional Hospital. Specifically, the study assessed the perceived leadership
style(s), analysed the relationship between transaction leadership style and
nurses’ intention to quit and also examined the relationship between
transformational leadership style and nurses’ intention to quit. Descriptive
design and the quantitative approach were employed. The sample size of the
study was one hundred and sixty-five (165) nurses out of a population of two
hundred and sixty-two (262) nurses, which was determined using the Krejcie
and Morgan (1970) sample size determination formula. Data were collected
using questionnaire. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was
used to measure transactional and transformational leadership styles; and that
of Nurses intention to quit was a four-item measure by Mobley (1982). The
questionnaire assumed a five point Likert scale, from ‘1 (least agreed) to 5
(highest agreed)’. Questionnaires were self-administered. Simple random
sampling technique was used. From the findings, the study concluded that
transactional leadership style was the perceived leadership style at the Volta
Regional Hospital; transactional leadership style and nurses’ intention to quit
suggest a positive moderate level of correlation, and transformational leadership
style and nurses’ intention to quit suggest a negative moderate level of
correlation. It was recommended that Volta Regional Hospital should initiate
policies that will intensify the need for the individual considerations,
inspirations, intellectual stimulations, and personal development of nurses.
