The Components of Ethical Leadership of Nursing Division Head at Advanced Hospitals under Ministry of Public Health

Abstract

The purposes of analytical research were to study the components ethical leadership among division head nurses in advanced hospitals under ministry of public health. The research samples were 314 head nurses of Cluster Random Sampling at 11 hospitals, and Proportional random sampling population. The research instruments of ethical leadership questionnaire conducted from ethical leadership concept and semi-structured interviews. The content validity test were conducted at. 84, and the reliability of the questionnaires in the form of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was at 0.89. The data were analyzed using content analysis, exploratory factor and analysis confirmatory factor analysis. The findings of the research were as follows: there were eight components of ethical leadership among division head nurses in advanced hospitals under ministry of public health which were described by 29 observed which the value of factor loading of each components were between 0.71 – 0.89, and the variance components describes the ethical leadership at 51 – 80%. The sequence of components according to value by factor loading were as high to lease follows: (1) managing fairness (ß = 0.89), (2) integrity (ß = 0.87), (3) honesty (ß = 0.86), (4) reinforcement (ß = 0.86), (5) ethical communication (ß = 0.83), (6) responsibility (ß = 0.80), (7) friendly interpersonal relationship (ß = 0.79), and (8) caring (ß = 0.71). The finding revealed the components were significantly congruence with the empirical data. (χ2 /df = 2.55, SRMR = 0.02, RMSEA = 0.07, CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.98). Based on the research findings, the researcher recommends observed of ethical leadership of division head nurses. The nurse administrators can emphasis on implementation as the guideline to develop tool for measuring of ethical leadership in advanced hospitals.