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Associations Between Leadership Style And Employee Resistance To Change In A Healthcare Setting, Tanisha Garcia
Associations Between Leadership Style And Employee Resistance To Change In A Healthcare Setting, Tanisha Garcia
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
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Health reform is forcing healthcare administrators to make rapid changes. A tendency to resist change can present problems for these organizations, including the large, not-for-profit Catholic healthcare systems. In order to make positive contributions towards healthcare, it's important to recognize the nature of the organization's involvement to change. The transformational leadership style has been shown to be positively correlated with change however, the relationship among leadership styles, employees' behaviors, and motivation to change are still not well understood and require further study. Further, although Oreg's Resistance to Change (RTC) approach has been researched in direct patient care areas, …