A group of community health nurses work together in the same office. They are each responsible for their own caseloads and scheduling of appointments
Their major leadership directives come from the state health office, several hundred miles away. This group of nurses is functioning under what type of leadership?
1. Charismatic
2. Shared
3. Transformational
4. Transactional
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: A charismatic leader is characterized by an emotional relationship between the leader and group members.
Rationale 2: Shared leadership recognizes that a professional workforce is made up of many leaders. No one person is considered to have knowledge or ability beyond that of other members of the work group, as in this situation.
Rationale 3: A transformational leader fosters creativity, risk taking, commitment, and collaboration by empowering the group to share in the organization's vision.
Rationale 4: A transactional leader has a relationship with followers based on an exchange for some resource valued by the followers.
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True False