The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Organizational Change Readiness In Selected Government Hospitals Of Addis Ababa
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2018-05
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leadership styles and organizational change readiness in three government hospitals of Addis Ababa. To this end, transformational and transactional leadership styles were independent variables and change readiness the dependent variable. Two research questions and ten hypothe-ses were developed to address the research objectives. The study used a quantitative and explanatory approach to examine the relationship among the variables. The data collec-tion instruments were Multi-factor Leadership Questionnaire (has two forms the Leader form and rater form) and California Organizational Change Management Question-naire. 71 administrative bodies and 341 non administrative employees were taken to take part in the study. Out of distributed questionnaires, 71(100%) valid responses were ob-tained from administrative bodies and 297 (87.1%) valid responses were obtained from employees. Both Descriptive and Inferential statistics were applied and the major statis-tical tools used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, an independent samples t-test, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis. It revealed trans-formational leadership style could be related to higher organizational change readiness implementation than transactional leadership style. The findings also showed that both transformational and transactional leadership styles explained a significant amount of variance infor organizational change. To this end, they jointly explained 42% of variance of organizational change readiness. Finally, it was recommended that tailor-made Lead-ership Development Strategies are needed to equip the entire staff. Besides, designing workable training and follow-up strategy by cooperating with the stakeholders is needed. The strategy need to show the direction towards criteria to compete for the service and change op-portunity, array of health service, Further, it is recommended that frequent interaction is needed among Board of Directors of the hospitals, the hospitals administrative staff, Ad-dis Ababa City Administration health bureau and the Federal Ministry of health. They need to work on linking leadership and change readiness with rewards, transparent and timely feedback process. Lastly the study identified area for future research.
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Transformational leadership style, Transactional leadership style, Change readiness