Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of management leadership style on the turnover intention of hospital nurses, and to assess variables from previous studies which affected the turnover intention and how managerial leadership influenced the turnover intention of nurses. Method: The study subject pool consisted of 845 nurses who were working for 31 hospitals located in D city and G Province. The data were collected from August 4 to September 7, 2010. The questionnaires included personal characteristics, organizational characteristics, job stress, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, managerial leadership, and turnover intention. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient, t-test, ANOVA, and logistic and hierarchical regression were used. Result: Turnover intention was influenced by age, religion, number of children, educational background, current pay grade, and frequency of the monthly overtime all from the aspect of their personal characteristics. Among the measured variables, turnover intention was negatively correlated with organizational commitment and job satisfaction and positively correlated with job stress. Conclusion: Managerial transformational leadership style and passive avoiding management style produced relatively different interactive effects with personal characteristics, organizational characteristics, job stress, and organizational commitment on turnover intention.