Leadership Styles and Conflict Management Strategies Used by Head Nurses

Abstract

Leadership has been described as a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task, although there are alternative definitions of leadership. For example, some understand a leader simply as somebody whom people follow, or as somebody who guides or directs others while others define leadership as "organizing a group of people to achieve a common goal". The study was aimed to determining leadership styles and conflict management strategies used by head nurses through: Identifying head nurses' leadership styles; Identifying conflict management strategies as perceived by head nurses; Finding out the relationship between head nurses leadership styles and their conflict management strategies. This study was conducted in two hospitals affiliated to Ministery Of Health (MOH). These are Kafr El Dawar General Hospital, which has 30 departments, Etay Elbaroud General Hospital, with 20 departments. Using a descriptive correlational design. The subjects of the study included all head nurses worked in the aforementioned hospitals during the study time. According to the number of departments, their total number was 50