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Nursing education leadership. Effect of situational and constraint variables on leadership style
Author(s) -
Goldenberg Dolly
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1990.tb01750.x
Subject(s) - leadership style , situational leadership theory , situational ethics , constraint (computer aided design) , psychology , style (visual arts) , descriptive statistics , nursing , management styles , nurse administrator , transformational leadership , medical education , shared leadership , medline , medicine , social psychology , political science , public relations , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , law , engineering , history
A descriptive study investigating the effect of situational and constraint variables on leadership style is reported A sample of 35 administrators of college (diploma) nursing programmes and 106 of their senior faculty participated in the study The Leadership Style Analysis Instrument was used to determine the administrators’ leadership styles, as perceived by the administrators themselves and by their senior faculty Demographic characteristics of the administrators and constraint variables were examined by chi‐square analysis (0 05) regarding their relationship to leadership styles It was found that despite variations in administrator characteristics and extent of constraints, the perceived leadership style was consistently relationship‐oriented The results have implications for educators and administrators in nursing