| Abstract: |
Investigated with 216 19-65 yr old nurses from a metropolitan hospital relationships of head nurses' leadership behavior (Form XII of the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire) and social power variables with staff members' job tension, performance, and terminations. A regression model explained significant portions of variance in these criterion variables. Leader consideration was inversely associated with tension and terminations but also with job performance. Initiating structure had a positive relationship with terminations. Social power variables, particularly reward and expert power, were useful in predicting job tension. The subordinates' personality attribute of locus of control (Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale) did not appear to moderate any relationships, but task structure had a significant interactive effect with expert and coercive power in predicting terminations. A comparison of these findings with other predictive models indicates the need to examine a comprehensive set of predictor variables in analyzing these criterion variables. |