Desveaux Laura, Verrier Molly C
Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science.
Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto ; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network, Toronto.
Physiother Can. 2014 Spring;66(2):119-23. doi: 10.3138/ptc.2013-02.
To describe and compare Canadian physical therapists' perspectives on the importance of characteristics required for leadership in the workplace and in society and to explore the implications for the profession.
This quantitative, cross-sectional study used a web-based survey of members of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) with a registered email address (n=6156). The perceived importance of leadership characteristics at the workplace level versus the societal level was examined using a Mann-Whitney U test, with the significance set at α=0.05.
A total of 1,511 respondents completed the questionnaire for a 24.5% response rate; they rated communication, professionalism, and credibility as the most important characteristics. For each of the 15 leadership characteristics, significantly fewer physical therapists chose the rating "extremely important" at the societal level than did so at the workplace level (p<0.001 for all characteristics).
Physical therapists consistently rate leadership characteristics as more important in the workplace than at the societal level. Future research should aim to guide understanding about the reasons for this difference in perceived importance of leadership characteristics across different contexts.
描述并比较加拿大物理治疗师对于工作场所和社会中领导力所需特质重要性的看法，并探讨其对该专业的影响。
这项定量横断面研究采用基于网络的调查，对象为加拿大物理治疗师协会（CPA）拥有注册电子邮件地址的会员（n = 6156）。使用曼-惠特尼U检验来考察工作场所层面与社会层面领导力特质的感知重要性，显著性设定为α = 0.05。
共有1511名受访者完成了问卷，回复率为24.5%；他们将沟通、专业素养和可信度评为最重要的特质。对于15项领导力特质中的每一项，选择“极其重要”评级的物理治疗师在社会层面显著少于在工作场所层面（所有特质的p值均<0.001）。
物理治疗师始终认为领导力特质在工作场所比在社会层面更重要。未来的研究应旨在引导人们理解不同背景下领导力特质感知重要性存在这种差异的原因。
