RELATIONSHIP OF WORK BEHAVIOR TYPES AND SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP WITHIN COLLEGES OF NURSING.
Contributors: University of Florida.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Administration.; Education, Higher.
Description: The problem of this study was to determine the relationship of work behavior types and situational leadership within colleges of nursing. Specifically, the theory that effective leaders adapt their work behavior types to the work behavior types of those being led was investigated.

The research sought to answer the following questions: (a) Are certain work behavior types characteristic of faculty in baccalaureate nursing programs? (b) Are the faculty perceptions of their dean's work behavior type congruent with their dean's work behavior type? (c) How do work behavior types of faculty relate to the faculty's perceptions of their dean's work behavior type? (d) Do the perceptions of faculty who have deans with high effectiveness scores differ from the perceptions of faculty who have deans with low effectiveness scores in regard to whether they and the dean have the same work behavior type?.

Participants of the study were 46 faculty members and their respective deans from randomly sampled colleges of nursing accredited by the National League for Nursing. The Leader Effectiveness Adaptability Description (LEAD) was used to determine effectiveness scores. The Marcus Paul Placement Profile (MPPP) was used to determine work behavior type.

There was no evidence to support the theory that effective deans adapt their work behavior types to the work behavior types of their faculty. This lack of support may have been due to (a) the use of actual rather than perceptual effectiveness scores, (b) the instruments used, and/or (c) the work behavior type of the deans in the sample. However, by finding consistency between faculty perceptions of their dean's work behavior type and their dean's actual work behavior type, evidence has been provided to support the concept that work behavior analysis is valid for use in higher education administration to determine how leaders are perceived by others.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-04, Section: B, page: 1327.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, 1988.

School code: 0070.