Relationships between transformational leadership style of head nurse, employee involvement, and effectiveness of emergency units, government hospitals, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study transformational leadership of head nurse, employee involvement and effectiveness of emergency units, to investigate the relationships between transformational leadership of head nurse, employee involvement, and effectiveness of emergency units, and to predict the effectiveness of emergency units, government hospitals. The samples consisted of 201 staff nurses who were working in emergency units not less than 1 year. The four research instruments were the demographic variables, transformational leadership of head nurse, employee involvement, and effectiveness of emergency units questionnaires, content validity was established by a panel of experts. Internal consistency reliability of questionnaires was established by using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient were .95, .93, and .93 respectively. The data were analyzed by percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients, and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
The major findings were as follows:
1. Transformational leadership of head nurse was at the high level (X̅= 3.86). Employee involvement at the middle level (X̅=3.35). Effectiveness of emergency units was at the high level (X̅=3.64).
2. Transformational leadership of head nurse and employee involvement were significantly related to effectiveness of emergency units at the .05 level (r = .257 and .506 respectively).
3. Employee involvement could predict the effectiveness of emergency units, government hospitals, Bangkok metropolis. The predictor was accounted for 25.60 percents of the variance (R² = .256). The standardized equation was as follow:
Z[subscript effectiveness of emergency units] = .506* Z[subscript employee involvement]