RELATIONSHIP OF NURSING DEANS' LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR TO NURSING FACULTIES' JOB SATISFACTION.
Contributors: Pepperdine University.
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Education.; Education, Administration.
Description: The purposes of this investigation were to determine the relationship between faculties' job satisfaction and their perceptions of deans' leadership behaviors and determine whether congruence between faculties' perceptions of dean's leadership behaviors and deans' perceptions of their own leadership behaviors were related to greater job satisfaction of faculties. Initiation of structure and consideration were specific leadership behaviors focused on in the study. Additionally, the investigation ascertained if demographic and organizational characteristics influenced perceptions of leadership behavior for both faculties and deans and job satisfaction of faculty.

Twenty-five deans and 327 faculty from baccalaureate nursing programs across the United States participated in the study. Four instruments were used for data collection: LBDQ-XII, JDI, Demographic Data Questionnaire, and Organizational Characteristics Questionnaire.

Data were analyzed using one-way and GLM ANOVAs. Fisher's LSDs were calculated when results of the analysis of variance reached a.05 level of significance or better to determine where differences occurred.

Findings. Major findings were: (1) The relationship of faculties' job satisfaction to deans' initiation of structure and consideration behaviors was significant for total population. Little to no significance occurred when data were analyzed by individual school. (2) Faculties' and deans' perceptions of deans' leadership behaviors were congruent for 56% of schools on initiation of structure and 64% of schools on consideration. (3) Faculties' job satisfaction scores on work, supervision, coworkers, and job in general were significantly related to congruency scores for initiation of structure and consideration. Little to no significance occurred when data were analyzed by individual school. (4) Faculties' demographic characteristics were significantly related to congruency scores for consideration but not for initiation of structure. (5) Deans' demographic characteristics were related to congruency scores for consideration and initiation of structure on relatively few (3) of the seventeen characteristics. (6) Faculties demographic characteristics of faculty rank, tenure, teaching assignment, and salary were significantly related to job satisfaction areas of work, pay, promotion, coworkers, and job in general. (7) Of sixty-one organizational characteristics only eight were significantly related to congruency scores for initiation of structure and consideration. (8) Twenty-six organizational characteristics; such as, numbers of faculty and students and increase in budget, related significantly at the.05 level to faculties' job satisfaction scores.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-09, Section: B, page: 3823.

Thesis (ED.D.)--PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 6009.