RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLES AND NURSES’ TURNOVER INTENTION IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS: THE CASE OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Nurse is a trained person which provides care to the sick and injured people especially in the hospital. Leaders have the responsibility of ensuring that nursing staff are engaged and perform their duties to the best of their abilities. The research design of the study was conducted by using both explanatory and descriptive research design. The target populations of the study was nurses working in 5 purposively selected public hospitals from a total of 13 public hospitals found in Addis Ababa. The result show that the majority of the nurses’ argued that their leaders mostly exhibit autocratic leadership style or behavior with an average mean of 3.63, followed by democratic leadership style with a mean score of 3.4235.