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Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation
Globally, employee burnout (EBO) is a black swan in healthcare management. Previous organizational management literature shows that EBO was often misunderstood by assuming it as a personal issue. However, the new definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that EBO is an occu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293679 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013102 |
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author | Wu, Yushan Fu, Qinghua Akbar, Sher Samad, Sarminah Comite, Ubaldo Bucurean, Mirela Badulescu, Alina |
author_facet | Wu, Yushan Fu, Qinghua Akbar, Sher Samad, Sarminah Comite, Ubaldo Bucurean, Mirela Badulescu, Alina |
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description | Globally, employee burnout (EBO) is a black swan in healthcare management. Previous organizational management literature shows that EBO was often misunderstood by assuming it as a personal issue. However, the new definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that EBO is an occupational phenomenon that places responsibility on organizations to manage it. Although recent evidence suggests ethical leadership (ELP) style may be important to mitigate EBO, shockingly, such relationships were not tested in healthcare systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Filling this knowledge gap in the existing body of knowledge, this study aimed to investigate the ELP–EBO relationship. To explain the underlying mechanism of how ELP reduces EBO, this study included two psychological factors as a mediator and a moderator: altruism (AL) and intrinsic motivation (IM). The data were obtained from hospital employees via a self-administered questionnaire (n = 289, paper-pencil method). A hypothetical framework was designed and tested for empirical validation through structural equation modeling (SEM). Empirical evidence confirmed that ELP reduces the risk of burnout among hospital employees, and AL mediates this relationship. The results also confirmed the conditional indirect role of IM in the above proposed mediated relationship. This study’s outcomes can help hospital administration deal with EBO’s epidemic in an ELP framework. Other, different implications have also been discussed in detail. |
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spelling | pubmed-96037042022-10-27 Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation Wu, Yushan Fu, Qinghua Akbar, Sher Samad, Sarminah Comite, Ubaldo Bucurean, Mirela Badulescu, Alina Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Globally, employee burnout (EBO) is a black swan in healthcare management. Previous organizational management literature shows that EBO was often misunderstood by assuming it as a personal issue. However, the new definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) clearly indicates that EBO is an occupational phenomenon that places responsibility on organizations to manage it. Although recent evidence suggests ethical leadership (ELP) style may be important to mitigate EBO, shockingly, such relationships were not tested in healthcare systems, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Filling this knowledge gap in the existing body of knowledge, this study aimed to investigate the ELP–EBO relationship. To explain the underlying mechanism of how ELP reduces EBO, this study included two psychological factors as a mediator and a moderator: altruism (AL) and intrinsic motivation (IM). The data were obtained from hospital employees via a self-administered questionnaire (n = 289, paper-pencil method). A hypothetical framework was designed and tested for empirical validation through structural equation modeling (SEM). Empirical evidence confirmed that ELP reduces the risk of burnout among hospital employees, and AL mediates this relationship. The results also confirmed the conditional indirect role of IM in the above proposed mediated relationship. This study’s outcomes can help hospital administration deal with EBO’s epidemic in an ELP framework. Other, different implications have also been discussed in detail. MDPI 2022-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9603704/ /pubmed/36293679 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013102 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wu, Yushan Fu, Qinghua Akbar, Sher Samad, Sarminah Comite, Ubaldo Bucurean, Mirela Badulescu, Alina Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title | Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title_full | Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title_fullStr | Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title_full_unstemmed | Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title_short | Reducing Healthcare Employees’ Burnout through Ethical Leadership: The Role of Altruism and Motivation |
title_sort | reducing healthcare employees’ burnout through ethical leadership: the role of altruism and motivation |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36293679 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013102 |
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