A descriptive study to assess the preferred leadership styles among nursing inchrages

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Background: Many hospital are confronted by the challenges faced in the workplace, demands and expectations of the consumers, issues related to quality and safety of health care due to lack of effective leadership technique.According to the survey, The nursing in charges around the world practice different leadership style which and the leadership style of each nursing in charge differ from each other or it may be same. Hence This study enables to understand the preference to various leadership styles by nursing in charges with their subordinates. Objectives:1.To assess the Leadership Style among Nursing in charges with their subordinates of selected hospitals of Pune city.2.To find out association of selected demographic variables to the leadership styles. Methodology: A Non-Experimental Descriptive Research Approach The study was conducted among various nursing in charges working in various hospitals of Pune City. The selection of sample was based on easy geographical accessibility, cooperation and availability of samples.The sample size for study was 60,selected by using Non Probability Convenience Sampling Technique from various hospitals of Pune City who met the inclusion criteria. Results: Majority of them 55% have preferred to have transformational leadership styles, 15 % of them have preferred to have transactional leadership styles, and only few preferred to have autocratic and democratic learning styles 10% and 1 % respectively. and when we compare the selection of two leadership styles at a time we found that (7%) of them preferred to have autocratic and transactional leadership style together as a leadership styles,and 7% of them had preferred to have transformational and transactional leadership style together as a leadership style. To find out the association of demographic data with leadership style data was analyzed and found that there is no significant association between any of the demographic data with leadership style as the P value is more than 0.05.Conclusion: The findings indicated that questionnaire was an effective strategy in bringing the preferred leadership styles. The structured questionnaire was acceptable and useful method of assessing the preferred leadership styles and can be used in future to identify preferred leadership styles used by Nursing in charges and Also leadership style has no association with the demographic profile.

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Yadav, P., Suji, M., Dev, S., & Mistry, M. (2020). A descriptive study to assess the preferred leadership styles among nursing inchrages. Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 14(4), 3656–3661. https://doi.org/10.37506/ijfmt.v14i4.12198

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