TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ITS IMPACT ON WORKFORCE OUTCOMES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN HEALTHCARE: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ITS IMPACT ON WORKFORCE OUTCOMES AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Hwangji S. Lu; University of Arizona, Global Campus, USA |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | |
| 3. | Subject | Keyword(s) | job satisfaction, healthcare organization, organizational performance, transformational leadership, workforce burnout |
| 4. | Description | Abstract | Healthcare organizations worldwide have operated in an increasingly complex and volatile environment where leaders face challenges, such as workforce burnout, staff shortages, increased operational costs, rapid technological advancements, and high demands for safety, quality, and equity. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated the challenges, uncovered the vulnerabilities of the healthcare systems, and intensified the need for effective leadership to uphold organizational performance and effectiveness. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the required healthcare leadership competencies, focusing on transformational leadership as a significant framework to address challenges existing in contemporary healthcare organizations. This review underscores the importance of transformational leadership, which includes idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration, in impacting organizational culture, employee motivation, engagement, job satisfaction, reduced burnout, and lower turnover rates. Empirical evidence has also demonstrated that transformational leadership is associated with reduced burnout and turnover intention, enhanced performance among healthcare professionals, improved patient health outcomes, and increased organizational effectiveness and efficiency. The paper further unveils the role of transformational leadership in influencing organizational culture and fostering innovation, resilience, and high efficiency in healthcare settings globally. Finally, this paper emphasizes that since transformational leadership is a highly effective approach for healthcare organizations, decision-makers should intentionally invest in leadership development, especially among middle and frontline managers, and improve workforce well-being to strengthen healthcare delivery systems. Consequently, better quality care with patient-centered doctrines will be achieved in an evolving healthcare landscape.
JEL: I10, I11, I18, M12, M14, J28 |
| 5. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Open Access Publishing Group |
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| 7. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 2026-04-05 |
| 8. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
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| 9. | Format | File format | |
| 10. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://www.oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJMMS/article/view/2186 |
| 10. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejmms.v11i1.2186 |
| 11. | Source | Title; vol., no. (year) | European Journal of Management and Marketing Studies; Vol 11, No 1 (2026) |
| 12. | Language | English=en | en |
| 13. | Relation | Supp. Files | |
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| 15. | Rights | Copyright and permissions |
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