LEADERSHIP AS AN ASPECT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE, JOB SATISFACTION, AND PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF FACULTY (NURSING, MANAGEMENT, EVALUATION).
Contributors: University of Utah.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Education, Administration.
Description: The purpose of the present study was to examine managerial leadership as an aspect of organizational climate in colleges of nursing. Specifically, this investigation sought to determine the relationship of leadership to job satisfaction and organizational effectiveness as perceived by faculty. This study also examined faculty status (administrative versus nonadministrative position) and its effect upon job satisfaction and perceptions of leadership and organizational effectiveness.

A random, stratified, proportional sampling of 10 Western baccalaureate colleges affiliated with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) was selected for study. Questionnaires were mailed to each college to be completed by administrative and nonadministrative faculty. The instruments elicited demographic, leadership assessment, job satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness information. The researcher also asked college deans to provide data on faculty attrition.

Seven hypotheses were investigated using regression, analysis of variance, and correlation statistical techniques. Using Likert's continuum of managerial leadership processes from authoritative to participative (Systems I to IV), it was predicted that: (a) the more participative the system of leadership process, the higher the job satisfaction of faculty; (b) the more participative the system of leadership process, the more effective the organization will be perceived by faculty; and (c) that administrative faculty will have higher job satisfaction and perceive the college to be more participative in leadership and more effective than nonadministrative faculty.

The present findings indicate certain trends relative to the system of managerial leadership, job satisfaction, and perceived organizational effectiveness. These three factors were found to be significantly correlated. The system of leadership was found to be a significant predictor of both job satisfaction and perceived organizational effectiveness.

To summarize, eight colleges were found to be in Likert's System II (benevolent-authoritative), a paternalistic leadership category and two were in System III (consultive), a more participative mode of leadership. Significant differences were found between two colleges and a third college on the system of leadership used and on an individual basis, faculty who perceived their system of leadership to be more participative were significantly more satisfied. The colleges were not significantly different from one another in job satisfaction and significant differences were not found in faculty status.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-11, Section: A, page: 3206.

Thesis (PH.D.)--THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, 1985.

School code: 0240.
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