Relationships between personal factors, communication ability, organizational factors, and participative management behavior of first line nurse managers, accredited government hospitals
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study participative management behavior , to study the correlation between personal factors, communication ability, organizational factors and participative management behavior of first line nurse managers and to explore the variables which predicted participative management behavior of first line nurse managers. The sample consisted of 267 head nurses working in public governmental accredited hospital and was randomly selected through stratify random sampling. Research instruments were individual factors questionnaire, participative management behavior questionnaire, communication ability evaluation form and organizational factors questionnaire. The instruments were tested for content validity and had reliability of .87, .85, and .91, respectively. Statistical tests for data analysis included mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation and Stepwise multiple regression analysis. Major findings were as follows: 2. The mean score of participative management behavior of first line nurse managers, accredited government hospital was at high level, ( = 4.01, SD = .33) 2. Communication ability and organizational factors that were organizational structure, leadership, job design, resource and reward were significantly and moderately correlated with participative management behavior at the .01 level (r = .555, .458, .380, .379, .325, and .139 respectively).3. Selected independent variables for inclusion in the multiple regression equation were communication ability, organizational structure, level of education and leadership. These predictors accounted for 39.4 % of the variance (R2 = .394, p< .05). The prediction equation in standard score form can be stated as follow : participative management behavior = .425 (communication ability) + .215 (organizational structure) + .136 (leadership) + .129 (level of education).