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Purpose: The research is planned to determine the leadership approaches of managing nurses working in hospitals and to make profits according to hospitals. Method: The universe of the study consists of a total of 614 nurses working at an university, public and private hospital in Istanbul, and the sampling of 369 nurses. The data was collected between June 2006 and March 2007 and the information form consisting of 10 questions about the demographic characteristics of nurses and their management satisfaction and the Multi-Lidering Scale (MOD), percentage, average, correlation, Cronbach Alpha, t test, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis test and verifying factor analysis. The findings: Nurses are generally satisfied with their managers (68%), their attitudes and behaviors (51%), and those who are satisfied have found that they see their managers more transformational leaders (p=0,000). According to the scale, the findings that nurses recognize their managers as transformational leaders (2.65) support this conclusion. According to the hospitals, nurses working in private hospitals consider their managers more transformational (χ2K-W=23.06; p=0,000) leadership, while also showing transactional leadership approaches. The result: Leadership behavior has a positive impact on nurses’ satisfaction, and it has been found that all nurses, including nurses in private hospitals, perceive the managers as transformational leaders.

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