Leadership style employed by Nurses’ Directors and Principals at Nursing Education Institutes, Hyderabad.

LMRJ

Abstract

Leaders who are able to observe their behavior by themselves as well as the effects of their leadership on workforce are even capable enough to adjust to a better style of leadership. This study was intended to expose the dominant style of leadership employed by nurses’ leaders at nursing education institutes. Overall 10 Nurse’s leaders were selected from ten Public as well as Private School of Nursing as participants by purposive sampling out of which one was Director nursing and nine were Principals at their respective institutes. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was conducted by using self-report questionnaire soughed for data collection. For data analysis SPSS for window version 20.0 was used for descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution (x), percentage (%), means (x-) and standard deviation (SD) respectively. In the study, four leadership styles were assessed: authoritative, democratic, facilitative, and situational. Study findings revealed that the leadership styles practiced by greater part of the Nurses Leaders are Authoritative in Nursing Education Institutes.