The effect of development program of leadership style based on concept mapping on the components of nurse's leadership style

the creation of a favorable clinical environment for exploiting nurse's 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 nurse's leadership style in 2016.
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.
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 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.