Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE JOURNAL OF NURSING-FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE HEMSIRELIK DERGISI, cilt.14, sa.56, ss.97-113, 2006 (ESCI)
The research was carried out descriptively in order to define leadership styles and control focus by allowing manager nurses evaluate their own leadership styles and influential factors. and in a methodological design in order to conduct validity-reliability studies for the scale that assesses the leadership styles of manager nurses. The scope of the research covered all manager nurses employed at 59 hospitals in Istanbul with 50 or more bed capacity. Participation was on voluntary basis, and all of the intended population was included in the research scope. The following were used as the data gathering tools of the research; a 9 -item questionnaire to define the personal variables of managers, Rotter's Internal -External Locus of Control Scale, and Leadership Style Scale. The data obtained from the research was evaluated by computers using percentages, oneway ANOVA, Tukey HSD, and con-elation tests. Item -total score correlation, Cronbach alpha, and factor analyses were used during validity -reliability studies. The research findings were discussed by being grouped as manager nurses' personal characteristics and professional attributes, their leadership styles and influential factors, locus of control and influential factors, and the correlation between leadership styles and locus of control. At the end of the research, it was found that employee-based style of leadership was assumed by older manager nurses in all positions who were employed at private hospitals, and who had postgraduate degrees, while task-based style of leadership was adopted by younger managers. Moreover, it was defined that the manager nurses were internal -controlled, while nurses with less education employed at lower positions were external -controlled. Finally, when the relationship between the leadership style and locus of control was examined, it was found that internal-controlled nurses assumed employee-based style of leadership approach.