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Respiratory Managers And Their Leadership Styles In Hospitals Recognized For Magnet Recognition Status, Jennifer Kay Wendling-Mattachione
Respiratory Managers And Their Leadership Styles In Hospitals Recognized For Magnet Recognition Status, Jennifer Kay Wendling-Mattachione
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate leadership styles of respiratory managers in the hospital environment, through examination of B.M. Bass's (1995) model of transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership. The author measured leadership alignment and outcome factors through the multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ 5x-short) survey. Respiratory managers are a large part of the healthcare team. They provide the respiratory therapist they manage with education, orientation and supervision. The respiratory managers of 200 Magnet recognized hospitals located within the United States were mailed a MLQ 5x-short survey. Each manager was asked to fill out the survey and return it in …