Overall, the findings of the study on evaluating the transformational leadership styles of hospice exectives identified that the transformational leadership skills of hospice executives appear to represent that the hospice executives surveyed perceived that they
utilized high levels of transformational leadership skills. In addition, the transactional leadership skills and laissez-faire skill results reflected the optimal pattern of utilization as suggested by Bass and Avolio.
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Based on the overall study findings, hospice
executives would appear to be prepared to deal with
the changing environment of health care and hospice.
However, the findings related to YHE warrant future
investigation to determine the validity of these
results and use as a predictor of leadership skills of
hospice executives
