Green-Wilson Jennifer, Clark Diane, Tschoepe Barbara, Zeigler Stacey L, Sebelski Chris A
Department of Healthcare Studies, SUNY Brockport (State University of New York), Brockport, New York, United States.
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
Physiother Can. 2022 Jan 1;74(1):54-63. doi: 10.3138/ptc-2020-0074. Epub 2021 Jun 11.
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of physical therapists practising in the United States of the importance of leadership characteristics and of demographic traits and other factors that might be associated with perceptions of leadership in three contexts: workplace, health care system, and society. An online questionnaire was distributed through snowball sampling to physical therapists practising in the United States over an 8-week period between October and November 2019. A total of 15 leadership characteristics were rated on a 5-point scale of importance. A total of 278 physical therapists responded to the questionnaire. They rated communication and professionalism as the top two leadership characteristics across all settings. Self-awareness and business acumen were not perceived as important for leadership. No relationship was found between gender and self-declaration as a leader or between a participant's practice setting and their rating of the importance of leadership characteristics. Our results further the discussion of leadership in the physical therapy profession. They highlight a comprehensive acceptance of leadership characteristics as important regardless of context. Further work will be necessary to transition this declaration of the importance of leadership skills to identifying the essential leadership skills for physical therapist education and clinical practice.
本研究的目的是考察在美国执业的物理治疗师对领导特质的重要性的看法，以及人口统计学特征和其他可能与在工作场所、医疗保健系统和社会这三种背景下的领导观念相关的因素。2019年10月至11月的8周时间里，通过滚雪球抽样法向在美国执业的物理治疗师发放了一份在线问卷。总共15种领导特质按照重要性以5分制进行评分。共有278名物理治疗师回复了问卷。他们将沟通和专业素养评为所有背景下最重要的两项领导特质。自我意识和商业头脑并不被视为对领导很重要。未发现性别与自我宣称是领导者之间存在关联，也未发现参与者的执业背景与其对领导特质重要性的评分之间存在关联。我们的研究结果推动了物理治疗行业中关于领导力的讨论。它们强调无论在何种背景下，对领导特质的全面认可都很重要。未来还需要进一步开展工作，将这种对领导技能重要性的宣称转化为确定物理治疗师教育和临床实践所需的基本领导技能。
