STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLES WITH DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING STAFF IN ZAHEDAN MEDICAL SCIENCES

Aim of present study is to examine the relationship between leadership style and development of staff. A method of this descriptive research is a correlation. The population was 762 experts in Zahedan University of medical sciences, nursing, which is based on the Morgan table 260 nurses from men and women, through a classification method-randomization were selected. Leadership styles using the style of leadership of the Bass and the aolio were measured and employee development questionnaire was based on approaches of Raymond Nova. The coefficient of reliability was 0.95 for leadership styles and questionnaire for the staff development was 0.98 respectively. The data obtained using the statistical indicators such as average; Pearson, independent t-test and regression were analyzed. The results of the study are: between the leadership styles, transformational and transactional leadership styles have a positive and significant relationship with staff development and in leadership style of intervention and staff development, there was no significant relationship. The predictor variables of employee development showed that transformational leadership had most prediction for employee’s development. Also results showed that responses of men and women to comments about the leadership styles and staff development, there was no significant difference.

Keywords: leadership styles, staff development, change style, style exchangeable, noninterventionist