The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships among personal factors, leadership of head nurses, perceived organizational policy clarity, and participation in quality development activities; and to determine predictors of participation in quality development activities of staff nurses. Research subjects consisted of 200 staff nurses from hospitals under the jurisdiction of the ministry of defense randomly selected by multi-stage sampling technique. Bass’s theory of leadership, Rodprasert’s theory of organizational policy clarity, and Newstrom’s theory of participation were applied as a conceptual framework in this study. The data were analyzed by Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The major findings were as follows : 1). Age was significantly and positively related to participation in quality development activities of staff nurses (r = .152) at the .05 level and educational level had no relationship to participation in quality development activities of staff nurses. 2) Transformational leadership and transactional leadership were positively related to participation in quality development activities of staff nurses (r = .282 and .411 respectively) at the .01 level . 3). Perceived organizational policy clarity was significantly and positively related to participation in quality development activities of staff nurses (r = .280) at the .01 level. 4). Factors predicted participation in quality development activities of staff nurses at the level of < .05 were transactional leadership, age and perceived organizational policy clarity. These predictors were accounted for 22.20 percents of variance (R2 = .222). Findings indicated that giving rewards and clarifying organizational policy are strategies for administrators to motivate employees to effectively participate in extra jobs.
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