The perception of leadership approaches and conflict management strategies of manager nurses working in two different hospitals in ankara by their subordinates

The aim of this descriptive cross sectional study was to investigate the perception of the conflict management strategies and leadership approaches of manager nurses by their subordinates. The investigation was carried out in Gazi University Faculty of Medicine Investigation Hospital and Private Güven Hospital within the province of Ankara. Overall 607 subjects participated in the study. As data collection tool, `?Demographic Information Form?? including personal and professional information on subordinate nurses participating in the study and their superiors, `?Leadership Bahavior Scale?? and `?Conflict Management Strategies Scale?? were used. In the evaluation of data, Mann-Whitney U test, Bonferroni Corrected Kruskall-Wallis H test and Correlation Analysis were used. According to the results of the investigation; when subordinates were grouped according to socio demographic and professional data, statistically significant difference was found between them in terms of their perception of leadership behavior and conflict management strategies of manager nurses. The most frequently used conflict management strategy by manager nurses as perceived by subordinates is integrating, to be followed by compromising, dominating, obliging and avoiding strategies. The most frequently perceived leadership behavior is task oriented leadership behavior, to be followed by change oriented and employee oriented leadership behavior. In the perception of the subordinates, a significant positive relation was found between employee, task and change oriented leadership behavior and their conflict management strategies i.e. integrating, obliging, compromising and avoiding strategies, but ther was a significant negative relation with dominating strategy.Key words: Leadership Styles, Conflict Management strategies, Nursing