Media Kesehatan Masyarakat Indonesia Volume 17 Issue 1 2021 DOI : 10.30597/mkmi.v17i1.12147 Website : http://journal.unhas.ac.id/index.php/mkmi © 2021 by author. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license 24 Leadership Style of Head Nurses against Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment of Staff Nurses Gaya Kepemimpinan Kepala Perawat terhadap Kepuasan Kerja dan Komitmen Organisasi Staf Perawat Lili Amaliah 1* , Iluminada Fajardo Castigador 2 , Benjamin Yngente 2 , Maria Linda Buhat 2 , Theofile Salcedo 3 , Eufemia F Octaviano 2 , Allan Yngente 2 1 Faculty of Medicine, Sultan AgengTirtayasa University, Serang City, Indonesia 2 Graduate School, Trinity University of Asia, Quezon City, Philippines 3 St. Joseph’s College, Quezon City, Philippines * Email corespondent: liliamaliah514@gmail.com ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT The leadership and motivation styleis an essential factor in supporting the per- formance of nurses. The study was undertaken to determine the correlation between the leadership style to the job satisfaction, and organizational com- mitment among the head nurses and staff nurses from the go-vernment and private hospitals in Serang, Banten, Indonesia. The study used descriptive corelational design. The samples were limited, involving 289 respondents from dr. Drajat Prawiranegara Hospital, Serang (18 head nurses and 183 staff nurses) and Sari Asih Hospital, Serang (6 head nurses and 82 staff nurses). The study found a low positive relationship of the head nurses' transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style against the staff nurses' job satisfaction, r-coefficients of 0.370 and 0.485, respectively. Also, a moderate positive correlation was found on transformational leadership style and tran- sactional leadership style of the head nurses against the organizational com- mitment of the staff nurses, r-coefficient of 0.606 and 0.609, respectively. It suggested that the staff nurses should be more responsive to the duty insepa- rable from the rights and obligations as an employee while the head nurse needs to pay attention to physical readiness, mental and psychological of sub- ordinates. Article History: Received Jan, 21 st , 2021 Revised form Feb, 3 rd , 2021 Accepted Mar, 25 th , 2021 Published online March, 2021 Keywords: Transformational leadership; job satisfaction; organizational commitment nurses; hospital; Kata Kunci: Kepemimpinan transformasional; kepuasan kerja; komitmen organisasional; perawat; rumah sakit; ABSTRAK Gaya kepemimpinan dan motivasi merupakan faktor penting dalam mendukung kinerja perawat. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara gaya kepemimpinan dengan kepuasan kerja, dan komitmen organisasi pada ke- pala perawat dan staf perawat rumah sakit pemerintah dan swasta di Serang, Banten, Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain deskriptif-korelasional. Jumlah sampel terbatas yaitu 289 responden dari dr. RS Drajat Prawiranegara, Serang (18 perawat kepala dan 183 perawat staf) dan RS Sari Asih, Serang (6 perawat kepala dan 82 perawat staf). Studi ini menemukan hubungan positif yang rendah antara gaya kepemimpinan transformasional perawat kepala dan gaya kepemimpinan transaksional terhadap kepuasan kerja perawat staf, koefi- sien r masing-masing sebesar 0,370 dan 0,485. Korelasi positif sedang ditemukan pada gaya kepemimpinan transformasional dan gaya kepemimpinan tran- saksional perawat kepala terhadap komitmen organisasi perawat staf, koefisien r masing-masing 0,606 dan 0,609. Disarankan agar perawat pelaksana lebih tanggap terhadap tugas yang tidak terlepas dari hak dan kewajiban sebagai pe- gawai sedangkan kepala perawat perlu memperhatikan kesiapan fisik, mental dan psikologis bawahan.