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标题：Measuring Transformational Leadership in Establishing Nursing Care Excellence
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作者：Sarah E. Moon ; Pieter J. Van Dam ; Alex Kitsos 等
期刊名称：Healthcare
电子版ISSN：2227-9032
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：4
页码：132-142
DOI：10.3390/healthcare7040132
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Transformational leadership (TL) is known to be essential to achieving Magnet® recognition, an internationally prestigious status for nursing care excellence. Since its inception in the 1980s, empirical studies have identified benefits of implementing the Magnet® Model involving improved patient care and nursing workforce outcomes. However, little is known about the leadership styles of nurse managers (NMs) working in a regional Australian context, which may hinder achieving Magnet® status. To close the knowledge gap, a self-administered survey was conducted to measure leadership styles of NMs at a large health organization comprising hospitals with a wide range of service profiles in regional Australia using a validated tool—the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-6S). One-way of variance (ANOVA) was used to identify statistical significance between respondents’ demographic characteristics (e.g., age, education, gender) and their MLQ-6S scores. Respondents (n = 78) reported their leadership styles as more transformational, compared to transactional or passive/avoidant leadership styles. The findings indicated that NMs’ higher education (p = 0.02) and older age (p = 0.03) were associated with TL styles, whereas passive/avoidant leadership was generally reported by female (p = 0.04) and younger (p = 0.06) respondents. This study has identified differences in reported leadership styles among NMs, providing a unique organizational insight into developing strategies to improve NMs’ TL, which could help to facilitate the implementation of the Magnet® framework. Healthcare organizations in similar settings could benefit from replicating this study to identify a dominant leadership style and customize strategies to improve TL.
关键词：transformational leadership; Magnet; Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire; nursing workforce; evidence based; healthcare management; leadership development transformational leadership ; Magnet ; Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire ; nursing workforce ; evidence based ; healthcare management ; leadership development