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An Inclusive Leadership Framework to Foster Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: The Role of Psychological Safety and Polychronicity.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 04 08; 19(8)IJ

Abstract

Creativity at the level of employees is of utmost importance for every sector of an economy, with no exception to a healthcare system. The reason why employee creativity is important lies in the fact that employees have profound knowledge of their job and thus can serve as a source of meaningful innovation in an organization. Research shows that employee creativity is largely dependent on leadership. Corporate leaders significantly influence subordinates' behavior. However, with the economic development, globalization, and changing business environment, a traditional authoritative leadership style can no longer be effective in understanding employees' psychological needs to foster their creative behavior. In this regard, the role of inclusive leadership as an effective organizational management strategy was recently discussed in literature at different levels. It was also stated that an inclusive leader could foster employee creativity. However, such relationships in healthcare systems of developing economies have largely remained under-explored previously. We explored employee creativity in a healthcare context of a developing economy in an inclusive leadership framework to bridge such knowledge gaps. We also investigated the mediating roles of psychological safety and polychronicity in the above-stated relationship. We collected the data from hospital employees through a questionnaire (paper-pencil method). A hypothetical model was developed, which was tested through structural equation modeling in AMOS. Based upon the statistical outcomes, we found that an inclusive leadership style in a hospital can significantly foster employee creativity, whereas psychological safety and polychronicity mediate this relationship. This study offers different theoretical and practical insights, especially to a healthcare system. An important finding was that an inclusive leader can motivate the followers to be more creative. This finding is significant for a hospital because creative employees provide a hospital with a solid competitive base.

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Fu Q
Department of Business Administration, Moutai Institute, Renhuai 564507, China.
Cherian J
College of Business, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 59911, United Arab Emirates.
Ahmad N
Faculty of Management Studies, University of Central Punjab, Lahore 54000, Pakistan. Faculty of Management, Virtual University of Pakistan, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Scholz M
Division of Water Resources Engineering, Department of Building and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. Department of Civil Engineering Science, School of Civil Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Kingsway Campus, P.O. Box 524, Aukland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa. Department of Town Planning, Engineering Networks and Systems, South Ural State University (National Research University), 76 Lenin Prospekt, 454080 Chelyabinsk, Russia. Institute of Environmental Engineering, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, ul. Norwida 25, 50-375 Wrocław, Poland.
Samad S
Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.
Comite U
Department of Business Sciences, University Giustino Fortunato, 82100 Benevento, Italy.

MeSH

CreativityHealth Care SectorHumansLeadershipOrganizationsPersonnel, Hospital

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

35457388

Citation

Fu, Qinghua, et al. "An Inclusive Leadership Framework to Foster Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: the Role of Psychological Safety and Polychronicity." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 8, 2022.
Fu Q, Cherian J, Ahmad N, et al. An Inclusive Leadership Framework to Foster Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: The Role of Psychological Safety and Polychronicity. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022;19(8).
Fu, Q., Cherian, J., Ahmad, N., Scholz, M., Samad, S., & Comite, U. (2022). An Inclusive Leadership Framework to Foster Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: The Role of Psychological Safety and Polychronicity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084519
Fu Q, et al. An Inclusive Leadership Framework to Foster Employee Creativity in the Healthcare Sector: the Role of Psychological Safety and Polychronicity. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 04 8;19(8) PubMed PMID: 35457388.
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