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Table 21<br />

Demographic Factors Related to Leadership Style<br />

Demographic Factors Transformational Transactional Passive-avoidant<br />

Leaders hip Leadership Leadership<br />

Years of Experience Pearson<br />

Correlation -.313(*) -.292(*) .084<br />

Sig. (2-tailed) .024 .036 .556<br />

Hours of Leadership Pearson<br />

Training Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

N 52 52 52<br />

Pearson<br />

Correlation<br />

Sig. (2-tailed)<br />

N<br />

N<br />

Hospital Size Pearson<br />

Correlation -106 .054 -. 102<br />

Sig . (2-tailed) .423 .687 ,456<br />

N 59 59 59<br />

** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).<br />

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).<br />

The leadership styles of CEOs were compared to hospital setting in<br />

which the CEOs worked using an independent-samples T test. The<br />

results indicated a significant variance in findings relative to<br />

transformational leadership style and hospital. Because the homogeneity<br />

of variance yielded a statistical significance in all setting types, a Kruskal-<br />

Wallis test was performed to identify the outliers and discover where the<br />

variability occurred (Table 22). The findings indicated that a significant<br />

difference is identified at the transactional leadership level. Further<br />

analysis of the data provided in Table 23 indicated that rural referral

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