The predominant leadership style in a nurse group which frequent a post-graduation courses

Abstract

This study identify the leadership style is adopt for nurses which frequent Post-Graduation Courses offer by Schools of Nursing of Metropolitan region of Porto Alegre, Brazil. The data collection used an instrument proposed by David R. Frew was used in a sample of 184 nurses. The instrument classify the leadership in five styles: very autocratic, autocratic moderate mixed, democratic moderate and very democratic. The results shows the predominant utilization of the mixed style (83,15%) followed by autocratic moderate (4,89%). The styles very autocratic and very democratic were less expressive (1,63%) and (0,54%) of the sample.