The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership of Nurse Managers and Autonomy, Empowerment of Nurses

간호 관리자의 변혁적 리더십과 간호사의 자율성 및 임파워먼트와의 관계

Purpose: This study was to identify the relationship between transformational leadership of nurse managers and autonomy, empowerment of nurses. Method: The subjects were 468 nurses and 19 head nurses were working at the 3 general hospitals in seoul. The data were collected from July 6 to September 14, 2001 by the structured questionnaires. For data analysis, descriptive statistics, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression with SAS package were used. Result: 1) 'Autonomy' and 'Empowerment' were positively related to 'Total Transformational Leadership', 'Charisma', 'intellectual stimulation', 'individual consideration'($r=.18{\sim}24$, $r=.26{\sim}36$, p<.001). 2) 'Transformational leadership' showed a significant difference according to major field of practice(F=4.47, p<.001). 3) 'Autonomy' showed a significant difference according to age, education level, total numbers of years in nursing practice, and position in present(F=3.68, 3.27, 3.13, 4.34, p<.05). 4) 'Empowerment' showed a significant difference according to age, marital status, education level, major field of practice, total numbers of years in nursing practice, and position in present(F=16.02, t=9.04, F=6.97, 1.86, 15.71, 11.38, p<.05). 5) As a result of regression analysis, the key determinants of 'autonomy' were 'Charisma' and this explained 10.61% of the total variance of it. And the key determinants of 'empowerment' were 'intellectual stimulation' and this explained 16.01% of the total variance of it.