Linking authentic leadership and management capability to public hospital performance: the role of work engagement
International Journal of Organizational Analysis
ISSN: 1934-8835
Article publication date: 8 February 2021
Issue publication date: 13 September 2021
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to propose a model of the effect of both authentic leadership and management capability on hospital performance. This model proposes work engagement as an intervening mechanism between the aforesaid links.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from 380 medical staff working in Jordanian Public hospitals and were analysed using the structural equation modelling analysis technique.
Findings
The results suggest that both authentic leadership and management capability have a positive effect on hospital performance. Although positive, the direct effect of management capability on performance was not significant. Furthermore, work engagement demonstrated to play a full mediation effect between management capability and hospital performance and a partial mediation effect between authentic leadership and hospital performance.
Practical implications
This study may be of use for public medical services providers in general and other services sectors in terms of the role authentic leadership and management resources can play in contributing to positive work-related outcomes at the individual and organisational levels.
Originality/value
Considering the mainstream literature in health-care management, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to date to integrate the impact of both authentic leadership and management capabilities in the public health-care sector. Further, the research model has not previously been introduced when taking into account the role that work engagement can play between the examined variables.
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Citation
Aboramadan, M., Alolayyan, M.N., Turkmenoglu, M.A., Cicek, B. and Farao, C. (2021), "Linking authentic leadership and management capability to public hospital performance: the role of work engagement", International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 29 No. 5, pp. 1350-1370. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-10-2020-2436
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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