Impacts of Transformational and Laissez-Faire Leadership in Health

Abstract

The health care industry is continuously developing, and constant leadership must maintain high-quality care to patients. Applying certain leadership styles is critical in developing, aligning and fabricating a pathway to effective and reliable care. Leaders can improve their subordinates’ performance, work behavior, and communication of their subordinates through the application of different styles of leadership. The two styles of leadership under investigation in this paper are transformational leadership and laissez-faire leadership.
 In health care organizations, transformational leadership improves the quality and safety of patient care. Furthermore, transformation enhances staff commitment to organizational goals. In contrast, Laissez-faire leadership is not an ideal style in health care facilities. Laissez-faire leadership increases stress levels, anxiety, and staff turnover rates. As a result, the higher level of stress among staff leads to medical errors, a higher rate of staff turnovers, and suboptimal care to care for patients. Each leadership style has its strengths and weaknesses; leaders need to apply the appropriate leadership style to improve health care quality, patient safety, teamwork, and increase staff motivation and commitment to reduce adverse events in health care facilities.

The Effect of Interprofessional Collaboration and Transformational Leadership on Patient Safety With Work Motivation as Intervening Variables

“…It means that if transformational leadership is increased by one unit, it will impact patient safety by 0.164. These results align with previous research (Khan & Tidman, 2021;Mistry et al, 2020;Seljemo et al, 2020;Tangatarova & Gao, 2021). Transformational leadership can improve patient safety.…”

“…Moreover, their charismatic spirit can influence the work patterns of their members towards improvement. Capable of delivering nursing care that focuses on patient safety (Khan & Tidman, 2021;Mistry et al, 2020;Seljemo et al, 2020;Tangatarova & Gao, 2021).…”

“…The theory clearly explains that the primary goal of transformational leaders is to change old work patterns towards new, better work patterns by relying on innovation and accuracy to avoid mistakes in delivering services so that patients are safe in their nursing care. Furthermore, it has been empirically proven that Transformational leadership influence can improve nurses' ability to implement patient safety (Khan & Tidman, 2021;Mistry et al, 2020;Seljemo et al, 2020;Tangatarova & Gao, 2021). So, it can be assumed that the research hypothesis: H 4 : Transformational leadership affects patient safety Motivation is a process that describes the intensity, direction, and persistence of individuals to achieve their goals (Robbins & Judge, 2017).…”

Nurse managers’ leadership styles as an impetus to patient safety in an academic hospital

“…Laissez-faire leaders, in contrast to the previously discussed style, are hands-off, avoid making decisions, ignore responsibilities, and do not exercise authority (Sfantou et al 2017). Dominant use of such a leadership style contributes to increased job stress and anxiety, affecting work performance and retention, as well as increasing medical errors and adverse patient care events (Khan & Tidman 2021). According to Daly et al (2014), in a complex hospital like the one under study, clinician engagement must be supported by a leader who is resourceful and involved and takes responsibility to drive patient safety.…”