Abstract
IntroductionHealthcare teams include both leaders and followers, with followers making up the majority of the healthcare team. There are five followership styles which have been described by Kelly (1992) based on critical thinking and active engagement. We aim to explore if a relationship exists between followership style and burnout, and also with job satisfaction of followers within the critical care setting. Additionally, we aim to quantify the distribution of followership types amongst followers within the critical care setting. MethodsParticipants were recruited in person at random to participate in a single centered, cross sectional, four-part survey to determine their followership type (Kelly followership type), burnout (Maslach Burnout Inventory) and job satisfaction (Brayfiled-Rothe Survey and Work and Meaning Inventory). Correlations between followership type and burnout as well as followership type and job satisfaction were then determined. ResultsA total of 64 participants (27 residents and 37 critical care nurses) took part in the study. There was a weak-moderate correlation between independent critical thinking and personal accomplishment (R = 0.297), and moderate correlation to meaningful work (R = 0.390), and job satisfaction (R = −0.300). Active engagement was moderately correlated with personal accomplishment (R = 0.302), meaningful work (R = 0.448) and job satisfaction (R = −0.418). Neither independent critical thinking nor active engagement showed significant correlation with depersonalization and emotional exhaustion subscales. Most participants were characterized into effective/exemplary followership type with no statistically significant differences between nurses and residents. ConclusionThis research shows that by creating an environment which promotes critical thinking and active engagement, nurses and residents may display less burnout, and enhanced job satisfaction.
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