Advances in Nursing & Midwifery

Abstract

  Abstract

Background and Aim: Managers by adopting effective management styles can improve  efficiency and quality of care  and empowerment of personnel .The aim of  present research is to examine  the correlation  between  management   styles  of head nurses  with  nurses' empowerment  in  medical  and   surgical  wards  in  hospitals  of   NEZAJA  Health and Medical Services  in Tehran 1388.

Material and  Method: This research is a descriptive correlational study.A sample of 57 sataff nurses, 26 head nurses and 5 senior managers participated in the study.A questionnaire which consisted of three sections was used for gatherind data. These sections includeds :1 (Nurse clinical competence scale  for assessing nurses' empowerment  2) Psychological empowerment questionnaire to study nurses' Psychological empowerment  3) questionnaire of Leader Effectiveness and Adaptability description to study head nurses  management styles. Content validity andface validity were used for  assuring the validity of questionnaires.Reliability of tools  was obtained by test re-test. Data were analyzed by SPSS14 software.

Findings: Finding  of the research showed that most head nurses(65/4%) reported that they use   selling management  style . The  empowerment level of nurses from the three view points (nurses ,  head nurses , their managers) were reported at good level ( 50- 70) and at very good level ( 3/1 - 4 ) for  nurses' Psychological empowerment .There was no significant association between head nurses’ management style with empowerment of nurses.

Conclusion Appropriate changes in organizational structure  andrelationships are necessary for achieving a dynamic system in organizations.

 Key words :management styles,empowerment,nurse  ,  Medical  and   Surgical  Wards