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. 2021 Jul 29:12:692433.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.692433. eCollection 2021.

On the Relationship Between Authentic Leadership, Flourishing, and Performance in Healthcare Teams: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective

Pedro Marques-Quinteiro  1 , Ana Margarida Graça  2 , Francisco Antonio Coelho Jr  3 , Daniela Martins  1
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On the Relationship Between Authentic Leadership, Flourishing, and Performance in Healthcare Teams: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective

Pedro Marques-Quinteiro et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

This study integrates the job demands-resources model and authentic leadership theory to test the general hypothesis that authentic leadership is a job resource that enables flourishing and performance in healthcare teams. Furthermore, this article tests the hypothesis that the daily bed occupancy is a job demand that weakens this relationship. Participants were 106 nurses that were distributed across 33 teams from two hospitals. The results suggest that the authentic leadership of team leaders is positively related with subjective and objective team performance, but only when daily bed occupancy is low. Authentic leadership had no relationship with team flourishing, regardless of the daily bed occupancy. Our findings suggest that the extent to which authentic leadership is adequate to promote the performance of teams working in a hospital setting is sensitive to contextual boundary conditions. Leading authentically might only be effective under specific circumstances.

Keywords: authentic leadership; flourishing at work; job demands-resources model; nurses; performance.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Moderation graphs for the interaction between team leaders’ authentic leadership and daily bed occupancy, regressed on team performance (left graph) and medical discharges (right graph).
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