The Development of an Empowering Leadership Measurement Tools for Head Nurses in Private Hospitals
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This research aims to develop a measurement tool for empowering leadership of head nurses in private hospitals in Bangkok. A sample of 248 professional nurses were recruited from nine private hospitals. The research instrument was questionnaires developed based on Ahearn’s concept and in- depth interview by experts who have experience in nursing administration and related to innovation development, including the Director of Nursing, totaling six peoples. The content validity was at 0.95 that validated by a panel of experts. The statistics used for construct validity were exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The reliability of overall scale was tested using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, the results was 0.93. The study found that Empowering Leadership Scale for Head Nurse in Private Hospitals consisted of three components with twenty indicators including: 1) Coaching with Caring composed with four indicators 2) Providing autonomy and Expressing Confidence in work potential composed with three indicators and 3) Fostering meaningful of work composed with three indicators. Factor loading of confirmatory factor analysis were between 0.89 – 0.96. The construct validity of second confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the scale development of empowering leadership of head nurses in private hospitals was consistent with the empirical data. (c2 = 29.08, df = 30, p-value = 0.51, GFI =0.98, AGFI = 0.96, CFI = 1.00, RMSEA =0.00) Therefore, the results of this study provide strong evidence of validity and reliability of the empowering leadership scale of head nurses in private hospitals and it could be used as a guideline for developing empowered leadership of head nurses in private hospitals.
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