<p>Nilsson, P. (2005). Which manager qualities can be related to a health promotive leadership? A questionnaire study among managers at hospitals. (41 p.)</p><p>Abstract</p><p>People’s working life and individual health can be seen as strongly related to each other because people spend the most of their adult lives at their places of work. The organisation a person works in is responsible for creating possibilities for the individual to feel good in a holistic way both at work and at spare time. The leadership of an organisation can work in the direction of health promotion and influence the fellow co-workers´ health. The aim of this study was to investigate how employees in health care in a position as head experienced their qualities and their actions as a leader. Then interpret to what extent their actions could be related to a health promoting leadership. The objective was that the results should be possible to use in working out a health promoting organisation. The method that was used was a quantitative cross-sectional study and a structured questionnaire was used. The data collection was carried out with all the managers at two hospitals. Total answers were 102 of 119 individuals, which mean a response rate of 85 %. The result showed that fifty percent of all the respondents belonged to the leader style motivator, the managers who were of motivator-style was younger and had shorter time of employment as managers. Those managers showed higher sense of coherence, more often delegated work to their fellow co-workers, had higher tendency of development and were more positive to changes than the other leader styles. The analysis indicates that the leader style motivator has qualities and attitudes that have a health promoting influence on the fellow co-workers. In relation to a public health perspective it is important that organisations investigate in what way their managers are conscious about their actions as a health promoting influence in their leadership. A holistic approach to leadership is important to the fellow co-workers´ health and work performance and thereby for public health in general.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hkr-3270 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Nilsson, Petra |
| Publisher | Kristianstad University College, Department of Health Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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