Background: Many hospital are confronted by the challenges faced in the workplace, demands andexpectations of the consumers, issues related to quality and safety of health care due to lack of effectiveleadership technique .According to the survey, The nursing in charges around the world practice differentleadership style which and the leadership style of each nursing in charge differ from each other or it maybe same . Hence This study enables to understand the preference to various leadership styles by nursing incharges with their subordinates . Objectives:1.To assess the Leadership Style among Nursing in chargeswith their subordinates of selected hospitals of Pune city.2.To find out association of selected demographicvariables to the leadership styles. Methodology: A Non-Experimental Descriptive Research Approach Thestudy was conducted among various nursing in charges working in various hospitals of Pune City. Theselection of sample was based on easy geographical accessibility, cooperation and availability of samples.The sample size for study was 60,selected by using Non Probability Convenience Sampling Technique fromvarious hospitals of Pune City who met the inclusion criteria. Results: Majority of them 55% have preferredto have transformational leadership styles , 15 % of them have preferred to have transactional leadershipstyles , and only few preferred to have autocratic and democratic learning styles 10% and 1 % respectively.and when we compare the selection of two leadership styles at a time we found that (7%) of them preferredto have autocratic and transactional leadership style together as a leadership styles ,and 7% of them hadpreferred to have transformational and transactional leadership style together as a leadership style. To findout the association of demographic data with leadership style data was analyzed and found that there is nosignificant association between any of the demographic data with leadership style as the P value is morethan 0.05.Conclusion: The findings indicated that questionnaire was an effective strategy in bringing thepreferred leadership styles. The structured questionnaire was acceptable and useful method of assessing thepreferred leadership styles and can be used in future to identify preferred leadership styles used by Nursingin charges and Also leadership style has no association with the demographic profile.
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