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Health Serv Manage Res 2008;21:236-247
doi:10.1258/hsmr.2008.008004
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The relationship of health-care managers' spirituality to their self-perceived leadership practices

James Gary Strack *, Myron D Fottler {dagger}  and Ann Osbourne Kilpatrick {ddagger}

* Boca Raton Community Hospital, Boca Raton; {dagger} Programs of Health Services Administration, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; {ddagger} Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA

Correspondence to: Myron D Fottler Email: fottler{at}mail.ucf.edu

This exploratory survey examines the relationship between selected dimensions of spirituality and self-perceived effective leadership practices of health-care managers. Kouzes and Posner's Leadership Practices Inventory and Beazley's Spiritual Assessment Scale were administered to a sample of health-care managers. Significant statistical relationships were found between and among the dimensions of both subscales. Analysis of variance revealed a statistically significant difference in three effective leadership practices by ‘more spiritual than non-spiritual’ managers. The confirmatory factor analysis of our theory-based model revealed a moderately positive correlation between spirituality and leadership (r = 0.50). The paper concludes with a conceptual theory postulating a rationale for the relationship between spirituality and effective leadership.


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