title: Exploring the impacts of personal factors on self-leadership in a hospital setting.
abstract: Self-leadership may be defined as a self-effecting process that individuals experience by maintaining the motivation they require for fulfilling their roles and duties. The self-leadership process comprises three key strategies: behaviour-oriented strategies, natural reward strategies and constructive thought pattern strategies. What is intended herein is to inquire about the implementation of self-leadership within organisations and to examine the effects of such variables as age, gender, total terms of employment, marital status and education on self-leadership strategies. The primary data collection instrument was a survey distributed to 450 personnel working at a state hospital in Kırıkkale, Turkey, and feedback thereto was received from 308 (68.4%) of those surveyed. As a result of the findings taken from the analyses, age, total terms of employment and receipt of education in leadership affect the use of self-leadership strategies. Although age and total terms of employment display a negative-directional correlation with the self-leadership strategies, female employees and those who receive education in leadership are more inclined towards self-leadership strategies.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Healthcare Management, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ozgur
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ugurluoglu
authors.forename: Meltem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saygılı
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ozer
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Santas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey
keywords: hospital; leadership; personal traits; self-leadership