Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chaves, Enaura Helena Brandão
• de Moura, Gisela S

Titel

The style of leadership of nurses: description of an experience

Ist Teil von

• Revista gaúcha de enfermagem, 2003-12, Vol.24 (3), p.355-364

Ort / Verlag

Brazil

Erscheinungsjahr

2003

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study identify the leadership style is adopt for nurses which frequent Post-Graduation Courses offer by Schools of Nursing of Metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil. The data collection used an instrument proposed by David R. Frew was used in a sample of 184 nurses. The instrument classify the leadership in five styles: very autocratic, autocratic moderate mixed, democratic moderate and very democratic. The results shows the predominant utilization of the mixed style (83.15%) followed by autocratic moderate (4.89%). The styles very autocratic and very democratic were less expressive (1.63%) and (0.54%) of the sample.