Learning Objective #1: Understand the concept of transformational leadership

Learning Objective #2: Examine predictors of transformational leadership of professtional nurses

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The purpose of this reserch were to examine transformational leadership of profession nurses; to analyze relationships between acieve motive, moral reasoning, organization climate and transformational leadership of profession nurses and to study predictors of transformational leadership of profession nurses working in regional hospitals and medical centers. Study samples consisted of 480 profession nurses selected by multi-stage sampling. Acieve Motive (Mcclleland, 1985), Moral Resoning (Kohlberg, 1976), Organization Climate (Nursing Division, 2000), and Transformational Leadership (Avolio, Bass & Jung, 1999) were used as study conceptual framework and developed study questionnaires. These questionnaires were tested content validity and reliability with the Alpha of .80, .50, .95 and .93 respectively. Statiatics methods of frequency, mean, standard deviation, pearson's product moment correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression were use to analyze study data.

The Major findings were as follow: 1. There were a high level of acievement motive, transformational leadership, organization climate and moral reasoning of profession nurses with mean score 4.08, 4.03, 3.98 (ranking from 1 to 5) and 2.69 (ranking from 1 to 3). 2. Acievement motive, organization climate and moral reasoning were possitively and significant related to transformational leadership at the .05 level. (r = .479, .433 and .115 respectively, p< .05) 3. Factors significantly predicted transformational leadership of profession nurses were acievement motive and organization climate at the .05 level.These predictors were accounted for 33 percents of variance. The study equation was as follow; Z'(Transformational leadership) = .391 Z(acievement motive) + Z(organization climate)

These findings indicated that nursing administrators should motivate achievement motive of staff nurses and create good organization climate to work. Staff nurses will improve their transformational leadership.