Date of Conferral

1-17-2025

Degree

Doctor of Healthcare Administration (D.H.A.)

School

Management

Advisor

Fawzi Awad

Abstract

Prior studies have examined leadership style and its relation to healthcare employees’ performance; however, few Ghanaian studies have focused on using characteristics of leaders and their relationship to job commitment and turnover intention among nurses and midwives in the 10 regions of Ghana. The objective for this quantitative correlation study was to examine whether leadership characteristics have a relationship with job commitment and turnover intent among hospital nurses in Ghana, where Upper East was the region of focus. Servant leadership theory was used as the theoretical framework for this study. The study addressed the relationship between leadership characteristics of empowerment, support of employee growth as independent variables and the job commitment and turnover intent as dependent variables, among nurses and midwives in Ghana. This study used descriptive and inferential quantitative data to describe the sample and predicted the population via the lens of the 2014–2017 Holistic Annual Health Report off Ghana, Ghana Health Sector Facts and Figures, and 2017–2018 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (GMICS). The data analysis was in two parts. The first part involved analysis of the various health reports, and the second part involved multiple regression by using health indicators from the GMICS dataset to examine a relationship between the study variables. The results revealed a significant relationship between study variables. The positive social change implication was that this study might increase job commitment and reduce turnover intention among healthcare professionals by developing new programs to improve healthcare professional skills to meet current challenges while improving compensation.

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