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ArticleJournal of healthcare leadership2024

The Impact of Leader-Member Relationships on Team Effectiveness Through Speaking Up and Silence: A Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Chinese Hospitals.

Hujie Wang, Martina Buljac-Samardzic, Jeroen David Hendrikus van Wijngaarden, Joris van de Klundert

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Hujie WangErasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1588-7874
Martina Buljac-SamardzicErasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Jeroen David Hendrikus van WijngaardenErasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Joris van de KlundertErasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-4151-5089

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Introduction: Although the importance of leader-member relationships in teamwork is acknowledged in literature, a deeper understanding of this relationship is lacking, especially in rural areas. The impact of leader-member relationships on team outcomes is especially important in rural Chinese hospitals as improving teamwork forms a national health reform priority in these hospitals. This study investigates how leader-member relationships (ie leader-member perceived similarity and power distance orientation) influence team outcomes (ie perceived quality of care and job satisfaction) via speaking up and silence. Methods: An online questionnaire was completed by 1017 team members (ie doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals) of 300 teams in four rural Chinese hospitals in October 2022. The questionnaire measured leader-member perceived similarity, power distance orientation, speaking up, silence, perceived quality of care, job satisfaction and control variables. Multilevel mediation analysis was conducted to test the hypotheses. Results: Leader-member perceived similarity and power distance orientation are positively related to speaking up ( Conclusion: Speaking up, rather than silence, contributes to team functioning by mediating the impact of leader-member relationships to team outcomes. Hospital management may therefore seek to stimulate speaking up by focussing on leader-member relationships: increasing leader-member similarity and promoting members' power distance orientation. However, any unintended effect of increased silence through these leader-member relationships is an important area of future research, which can adopt multidimensional models of speaking up and silence.

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