The propose of this study was to identify the relationship between the head nurses´ leadership style and the autonomy perceived by ntu~ses and to provide the basic data ´`or developing strategies of the effective nurse staff mana~~ement. The subjects were 177 nurses who were working at the 3 general hospitals in Seoul. The data were collected from December 1999 to January 2000 by the struclwed questionnaires. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepvrise multiple regression with SPSS-PC´ version 8.0 were used.
The results of this study were as follows:
1. The score of ´the head nurses´ transforn~ational leadership perceived by nurses´ was highier than that of `the head nurses´ transactional leadership´. Among 5 subdimensions of `the leadership styles perceived by nurses´, the scores of the `charisma´ and ´intellectual stimulation´ were highest and the lowest one was that of ´extra management´.
2. Only `the head nurses´ transformational leadership perceived nurses´ and ´the situatuational reward´ showed a significant difference according to the married status ;nurses who were married showed higher scores than who were not.
3. The autonomy perceived by nurses´ showed a significant difference according to the educational background ;nurses who had master degree showed higher score than who had diploma.
4. `Charisma´ was positively related to `intellectual stimulation´, `individual consideration´, and `situational reward´. `Intellectual stimulation´ was positively related to `individual consideration´ and `situational reward´. `Individual consideration´ was positively related to ´situational reward´. But `extra management´ was negatively related to all of variables. `Autonomy´ was significantly related to ´individual consideration´ and ´the transforrnational leadership´.
5. The determinents of `the autonomy perceived by nurses´ were `individual consideration´ and the educational background, and they explained 15.4% of the total variance of it. The key determinent variables was `individual consideration´. It explained 11.5% of the total variance of the autonomy.
According to the results of this study, the suggestions were as follows
1. It is necessary to develop strategies for exercising the head nurses´ transfon~national leadership in nursing department ~ It should to be considered the difference in the leadership style perceived by nurses according to demographic variables.
2. The further studys on the individual consideration of head noises´ transformational leadership and the opportunity of self-development such as education for enhancing nurses´ autonomy is needed.
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