Reconstructing Organization Culture through Enforcing Head Nurses Transformational Leadership Style

Organizational cultures are created by leaders, and one of the most decisive functions of leadership may be the creation, the management, and when that may become necessary, the destruction of culture. Culture and leadership, when one examines them closely, are two sides of the same coin and neither can really be understood by itself. From this point of view, the aim of the present study was to examine the effect of enforcing head nurses transformational leadership style on reconstruction of organizational culture. The study was conducted at Paediatric Hospital - Mansoura University. It was carried out on two groups who working in different hospital units; the first group consisted of (n=27) head nurses and the second group included (n=137) staff nurses. Two tools were used for data collection. Multiple choice questions (MCQ) test is contained 37 questions to measure the level of defining, understanding, and practicing the head nurses to transformational leadership style. The second tool was Organizational Culture Assessment Sheet (OCAS). It is contained of 84 items which used to investigate the perception of staff nurses as regarding their organization culture. The results are showed significant difference and greater awareness of transformational leadership style of head nurses who succeed in raising staff nurses perception of their organizational culture. So, the present study recommended that designing training programs continuously for head nurses to improve transformational leadership style and empower the concept of transformational organizational culture