| The effect of development program of leadership style based on concept mapping on the components of nurses' leadership style | 
								
								  | Rasoul Raesi    ,   Zahra Farajzadeh    ,  Seyed Alireza Saadatjoo    | 
								
								  | School of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran , farajzadehz@bums.ac.ir | 
								
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								  | Introduction: the creation of a favorable clinical environment for exploiting nurses' capabilities and identifying their potential capacities, necessitate playing efficient leadership role; therefore, this study aimed at studying the effect of development program of leadership style based on concept mapping on the components of nurses' leadership style in 2016. Method: In this experimental study, 30 head-nurses and 150 nurses of Vali-Asr and Imam Reza (AS) hospitals of Birjand who had inclusion criteria entered the study. In each hospital, half of the head-nurse assigned randomly to the experimental group and half to the control group. Head-nurses in experimental group received human resource development program based on concept mapping method over a period of 8 sessions. Clarke's Leadership style survey was completed by nurses and head-nurses before, one month and two months after the intervention. Data were analyzed using statistical software SPSS 15, independent t-tests, intra group analysis of variance and Bonferroni test at the significance level of 0.05.
 Results: the results of this study showed that in the viewpoint of both head-nurses and nurses, the mean score of leadership styles (autocratic, democratic and free-reign) was significantly higher in experimental head-nurses after intervention and in the follow-up in comparison to before intervention (p<0/05).
 Conclusion: based on the results, development programs of leadership style based on concept mapping is influential on the leadership styles in the viewpoints of both head-nurses and nurses and result in the change of leadership style score. Therefore, it is recommended to use this method in training head-nurses and nurses.
 
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								  | Keywords:  Development, concept mapping, leadership style, head-nurses. | 
								
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                                  General Received: 2017/09/2 | Accepted: 2018/02/10 | Published: 2018/02/10
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