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Chapter 5<br />

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION, AND<br />

RECOMMENDATIONS<br />

Leadership styles of hospital CEOs were characterized by a high<br />

level of transformational leadership behaviors, transactional behaviors and<br />

to a much lesser extent, passive-avoidant behaviors. Their leadership<br />

styles were not consistently related to their leadership training, gender,<br />

age, years of experience, stated values, or hospital size or setting in which<br />

they worked. Finally, these transformational CEOs, of both genders,<br />

perceived their own leadership style to be consistent with how others<br />

perceived them.<br />

7. Hospital C EOs demonstrated greater transformational and transactional<br />

leadership traits and behaviors than did leaders in three meta-analyses<br />

performed since 7 992.<br />

The results of this study suggest that hospital CEOs had high<br />

levels of transformational leadership behaviors and traits that could serve<br />

their organizations well. These CEOs paired their high transformational<br />

leadership levels with elevated transactional leadership levels to create<br />

the best of both worlds (Table 6). Additionally, hospital CEOs had a mean<br />

ranking of passive-avoidant leadership that was lower than that identified<br />

by the meta-analysis studies of Bass (I 999), Lowe et. al, (1 996), and<br />

Gasper (1 992).

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