The Development of Proactive Psychological Strategies for Enhancing Adaptive Leadership of Head of Rehabilitation Division, Private Organization

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop proactive psychological strategies for enhancing adaptive leadership of head of rehabilitation division, private organization. The sample of this study was divided into 2 groups: the first group was 99 persons, stratified sampling from the population. The second group was 60 persons responsively selected from the fist group whose adaptive leadership scores were   low. They were simple random sampling as an experimental group and a control group with 30 persons in each group. The experimental group participated in the proactive psychological strategies while the control group did not receive the proactive psychological strategies and engaged in ordinary activities. The research results were as follows: 1) The total mean score and each dimension mean score of adaptive leadership of  the head of rehabilitation department of private organization were low; 2) the proactive psychological strategies were developed by applying concepts of metacognition, future orientation and situated learning; 3) the adaptive leadership scores of the experimental group after participating in the proactive psychological strategies and after the follow up were significantly higher than before the experiment at .01 level and significantly higher than that of the control group at .01 level, and 4) the focus group report of the experimental group and the related persons showed that they were very satisfied with the proactive psychological strategies.