Hospital Leadership

This study outlines the benefits of a collective leadership approach in healthcare, with positive supportive effect on staff noted, though study limitations lead the researchers to call for more robust research on this topic in the future. De Brún, A., O, D. R., & McAuliffe, E. (2019). Interventions to develop collectivistic leadership in healthcare settings: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3883-x

The authors of this study use a questionniare approach to investigate effect of a transformational leadership style on burnout in healthcare workers. Jinyong Chen, Wafa Ghardallou, Ubaldo Comite, Naveed Ahmad, Hyungseo Bobby Ryu, Antonio Ariza-Montes, & Heesup Han. (2022). Managing Hospital Employees’ Burnout through Transformational Leadership: The Role of Resilience, Role Clarity, and Intrinsic Motivation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(10941), 10941. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710941

The researchers described that women leaders in Medicine bring a valuable skillset to their work, despite experiencing a more challenging road to leadership than their male counterparts. Gottenborg, E. W., Yu, A., McBeth, L. J., Jaros, K. E., & Burden, M. (2021). The Experience of Women in Hospital Medicine Leadership: a Qualitative Study. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 36(9), 2678–2682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06458-x

The authors of this paper describe their working group strategy for staff retention at a Toronto Hospital, finding that strong, supportive leadership plays a big role in this retention. Dupe, B., Mitton, S., Hughes, L., Gross, E., Wong, C., Martina, K., Townsend, C., Savoie, J., Parzanese, M., & Prospero, L. D. (2022). Investing in our human capital: Sharing the experience of implementing a retention strategy at a large academic hospital from a leadership lens. Journal of Medical Imaging & Radiation Sciences, 53(4), S100–S106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2022.08.011