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Transformational leadership improves nurse job performance both directly and indirectly by enhancing work engagement. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance among hospital nurses in Saudi Arabia.

August 29, 2026Nursing OpenOpen Access

Leading the Transformation of Saudi Arabia's Health System Under Vision 2030: Mediating Pathway From Transformational Leadership to Job Performance via Work Engagement Among Nursing Workforce

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IIIbrahim Abdullatif IbrahimMansoura University AAAbdulaziz AbaoudShaqra University SHSahar Hassan HelalyMansoura University

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Multicenter cross-sectional study reveals work engagement partially mediates transformational leadership effects on nurse job performance, highlighting leadership training to improve workforce...

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To examine the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between transformational leadership and job performance among hospital nurses in Saudi Arabia.
Conducted a multicenter cross-sectional web-based survey of a convenience sample of 321 nurses across five tertiary hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Measured constructs using the Global Transformational Leadership Scale, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, and Job Performance Scale alongside demographic data.
Analyzed associations and mediation pathways using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS followed by Hayes' PROCESS Macro (Model 4).
Nurses reported relatively high perceived transformational leadership, relatively high work engagement, and high levels of job performance.
Transformational leadership was significantly and positively associated with work engagement, whereas gender and education showed no significant association with engagement.
Transformational leadership and work engagement both positively associated with job performance, with work engagement partially mediating the relationship between leadership and performance.

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Ibrahim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9299c88e5d7d1fc0c11faa https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70767

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Multicenter cross-sectional study reveals work engagement partially mediates transformational leadership effects on nurse job performance, highlighting leadership training to improve workforce...

Leading the Transformation of Saudi Arabia's Health System Under Vision 2030: Mediating Pathway From Transformational Leadership to Job Performance via Work Engagement Among Nursing Workforce

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