Styles and dimensions of leadership: initiative and investigation in hospital nursing daily work

Considering that leadership dimensions of nurses condition our management style, the following was delimited as a problem: which are the dominant and subdominant styles of nursing leadership in the exercise of management activities, according to his self-perception? The objective of this study was to identify the Grid style adopted by nurses, according to leadership, initiative, and research dimensions within the daily work of hospital nursing. This is a quantitative, descriptive study which was carried out in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From June to July, 2007, 66 nurses were interviewed. In the initiative dimension style, 5.5 were noticed to be dominant and 9.9, subdominant. In the investigation dimension styles, 9.9 is dominant and 1.1, subdominant. We conclude that style 1.1, as the nurse's subdominant, reveals that the subjects tend not to care, thus idealizing leadership 5.5 (Organizational Man) compatible with nursing team's needs and institution aims.

Leadership; Hospital management; Nursing