The Purpose of this study is to find out differences among the leader"s traits on the hierarchy of Nurse managers in Nurse system of the hospital. In this study 152 managers over head nurse working in 6 University hospitals and 5 general hospital; were selected and the questionary paper answered by them was collected from 1st to 30th in September in 1997.
The measuring instrument used in this study is the one integrated and classified by Stogdill (1981), which nurse professor and 2 students of the master"s course translated and modified with myself. tend its validity was verified through making a test en 130 nurses. The measuring instrument used in this study is made up of 4 items about physical characteristics. 3items about social back-ground, 4 items about intelligence and ability, 17 items aE~out personalty, 6 items about task-related characteristics, 9 items about social characteristics and 8 items about general background in the triats of leader. And this instrument is made to be marked using; five point Likert type. It"s reliability is Cronbach"s Alpha=.93. The data for study were analyzed. through SPSS/PC+
The result of this study are as follows
1. The order in importantly perceptible degree of the lE~ader"s traits showed like these the intelligence and ability (M=4.683), the task-related characteristics (M=4.605), the personality (M= 4.39), the social characteristics (M=4.327), the social back-ground (M=4.056), the physical characteristics (M=3.601).
2. The order in degree to percept the importance of 44 detailed items of the leader"s traits showed like these the judgement and decisiveness (M= 4.967), the sense of responsibility (M=4.904), the activity and energy (M=4.796), the self-confidence (M=4.776). the creativity (M=4.748), the intelligence (M=4.743), the responsibility in the pursuit of objectives (M=4.743), the enthusiasm (M=4.717), the objectivity (N1=4.704), the moral sense and ethical conduct (N1=4.704), the ability to enlist cooperation (N1=4.694), the strength of conviction (i~1=4.678). the enterprise (M=4.691), the administrative ability (M=4.678) and the cooperativeness (M=4.638)
3. As the result of analyzing the leaders trait differences on the hierarchy of nurse managers in six factors of the leaders traits, the social back-ground ;showed the meaningful differences(F=4.983, P=O.00f;).
4. As the result of analyzing the leaders traits defferen~~es made from the upper first to 15th rank among the detailed items of the leader"s trait factors on the heirarchy of nurse managers, the meaningful defferences appeared in the following items the objE~ctivity(F=3.413. P=0.033), the creativity (F=3.550, P=0.031), the sense of responsibility(F =3.345. P= 0.049), and the administrative ability (F=3.363. P=0.037).
5. As the result of analyzing the leaders trait factors in general background, only the social back-ground of 6 leaders trait factors showed the meaningful c´,ifferences according to the working place (F=4.057. P=0.008).
The study shows that we should consider the above ]eader~s trait factors in selecting nurse managers and that we should develop the educational program for hierarchy of nurse managers urgently.
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