ReviewJournal of healthcare leadership2024
Servant Leadership in the Healthcare Literature: A Systematic Review.
Review in Journal of healthcare leadership, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Job satisfaction and its correlation with pharmacists' performance and patient trust.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Servant leadership and job satisfaction in medical assistants: mediating effect of work-life balance and burnout.Journal of health organization and management · 2026Article
- Value-oriented leadership among nurse managers in multicultural healthcare: a phenomenological study.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Protecting providers: A qualitative study of Veterans Health Administration mental health providers' perspectives on leadership and burnout.Psychological services · 2026Article
- How does servant leadership affect unethical pro-organizational behaviors: examining a moderated mediation model.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Compassionate Leadership in Healthcare: A Concept Analysis Using the Walker and Avant Method.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2026Review
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- Serving With Purpose: How Servant Leadership Fosters Nurses' Service Orientation and Performance.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Nursing Managers' Leadership Styles and Nurses' Artificial Intelligence Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
- The Influence of Competent Managers on Employee Retention, Job Satisfaction and Well-Being in the Healthcare Industry - A Scoping Review.Journal of healthcare leadership · 2026Review
- The effect of servant leadership on job crafting, job satisfaction, and work engagement among doctors: the mediating role of person-job fit.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Leadership in academic medicine: reflections on building departments and shaping culture.International ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Healthcare Decision-Making Ecosystem Deengineering.Cureus · 2025Review
- The Role of Servant Leadership in Work Engagement Among Healthcare Professionals.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Servant leadership and patient safety culture in Ethiopian public hospitals: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Servant leadership, work-life quality, and organizational citizenship behavior in nurses: a cross-sectional design.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Nurturing Leaders in Community-Based, Primary Healthcare Services for People with Disabilities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- How and when paternalistic leadership influences service innovative behaviour while inhibiting counterproductive work behaviour among healthcare professionals: the roles of perceived supervisor support and public service motivation.Journal of health organization and management · 2025Article
- Perceptions of South Africa's master of public health graduates on the degree's contribution to their leadership at work and in society.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- "Direct Me or Leave Me": The Effect of Leadership Style on Stress and Self-Efficacy of Healthcare Professionals.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Servant leadership has received a growing consideration among scholars and practitioners as a viable leadership model capable of bringing positive changes in the increasingly complex healthcare system. The increasing servant leadership literature in healthcare requires an integrated research work that provides a holistic picture of the existing studies. This systematic review aims to synthesize servant leadership conceptualizations, theoretical frameworks, measurement tools, and nomological networks (antecedents, mediators, outcomes, and moderators) associated with prior research in healthcare. A systematic synthesis of 55 pertinent healthcare-specific conceptual and empirical studies demonstrated that servant leadership assumes a crucial role in developing a committed workforce that contributes towards the achievement of performance excellence in healthcare. The review uncovers that the Global Servant Leadership Scale is the most utilized measure of servant leadership in sector-specific studies in healthcare. Moreover, social exchange theory is the dominant underpinning mechanism explaining the influence of servant leadership on specific variables of interest. The findings further revealed that servant leadership has a positive relationship with a range of valued individual and organizational outcomes in healthcare. Our review contributes to the development of servant leadership theory and practice through ascertaining sector-specific studies in the territory of healthcare. We finally conclude by providing a detailed panorama for future healthcare-specific servant leadership research in terms of potential topics, methodological rigor, and less explored variables in prior studies.
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