A study of perceived leader interaction style and job satisfaction of Master's prepared nurses at selected hospitals in the state of Tennessee

This study compared the perceptions of interaction style of administrators of nursing and the Master's prepared nurses working with them at eight hospitals in Tennessee to investigate the relationship of perceptions to job satisfaction, role ambiguity, and role conflict of Master's prepared nurses. A significant difference was found between the measured perceptions of role ambiguity for Master's prepared nurses with perceptual congruence and those with perceptual noncongruence. The findings of this study revealed that perceptual congruence as constructed and operationalized for this study did not relate to the measured job satisfaction of Master's prepared nurses. Additionally, the data revealed higher significant relationships between role ambiguity and conflict and job satisfaction for Master's prepared nurses with perceptual congruence. Higher perceptions of both role ambiguity and role conflict correlated to lower job satisfaction levels, with role ambiguity' having the strongest relationship. The significance level was set at p<.05.