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hospital CEOs ranked significantly lower in transactional leadership<br />

means (2.10) than did CEOs in urban (2.64), rural (2.29) or critical access<br />

(2.43) hospitals. Table 23 provides information about the actual means,<br />

standard deviations, and standard error of measurement for the CEOs<br />

relative to hospital setting. The findings suggest that while CEOs with<br />

various levels of transformational, transactional, and passive-avoidant<br />

leadership styles were found in all hospital settings, transactional<br />

leadership scores were found to be significantly lower and passive-<br />

avoidant scores significantly higher in rural referral hospitals than in other<br />

settings. It is difficult to extrapolate significant information from those<br />

findings considering the low number of rural referral respondents (N=2).<br />

Table 22<br />

Kruskal Wallis Test for Hospital Settings<br />

Transformational Transactional Passive-Avoidant<br />

Leadership Leadership Leadership<br />

Chi-square 4.232 9.466 5.805<br />

df 3 3 3<br />

Asymp. Sig. .237 .024 .I22

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