Relationship Between Manager's Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction

626 Words3 Pages
In the article entitled The relationship between managers’ leadership styles and emergency medical technicians job satisfaction (Ghorbanian, Bahadori, & Nejati, 2012), the authors observe the manner in which emergency managers demonstrated leadership style significantly influences how emergency medical technicians rate their job satisfaction and perform job duties; arousing employees hopefulness and optimism about their job position, and increasing the likelihood that they will feel compelled to maintain quality relationships with their managers. The majority of the article consists of the correlation between leadership styles and job satisfaction, and introduces the idea that this study could be used to implement groundwork for preferred leadership styles policies to enhance job satisfaction of emergency medical staff. The authors begin by noting the importance of leadership in health services “because there is abundant evidence that good leadership and management leads to better outcomes for patients” (Ghorbanian, Bahadori, & Nejati, 2012). The authors make a good first impression, stating that the National Medical Emergency and Accidents Management Centre was established with the aim of protecting the public’s health and has a critical function in patient outcome. They also note that emergency workers are typically faced with stressful situations which could make it difficult to work. Other characteristics of this profession, such as, long working hours, working in adverse conditions, and the challenging nature of the care services, add to the stress faced by these workers. The authors point out that the leader of the EMS agency must be able to influence different staff, helping them remain capable of working in this stressful environment to save people’s lives. This is interesting to note because given such stressful conditions, the importance of job
Open Document