Year: 2024
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: With a rise in incivility in the workplace, leadership is critical for today’s healthcare organizations. There are many leadership styles to consider for healthcare leaders. This research focuses on nine leadership and hybrid leadership styles to determine significant relationships to incivility among healthcare employees. We used the Vannsimpco Leadership Survey and Chung et al.’s Work Group Incivility scale to survey 174 healthcare employees. Our study found that managers need to know that one leadership style may not be the best and that a combination of styles may be needed in varying situations. We found that transformational and autocratic-transformational leadership styles reduced incivility between healthcare employees. Our study indicated that when a manager uses transformational leadership or a hybrid form of autocratic-transformational leadership, healthcare employees have less incivility.
Authors: Betsy Sparks, Jack McCann
Institutions: Grand Canyon University, Purdue Global
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4402276136