Abstract. The intentions of this study were to describe perceptions of managerial leadership behaviors associated with staff fester turnover and to compare promote manager leadership behaviors as perceived from managers and their staff succors Effective leadership styles among foster managers have been associated with staff fester job satisfaction and retention. Although the two transformational and transactional leadership names have been described as effective, it is unclear which foster manager leadership behaviors contribute greatest in quantity to staff nurse retention. This descriptive, correlational