Título
The impact of paternalistic leadership on innovation and performance in chinese public hospitals
Autor
Tan Zhiying
Resumo
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Chinese public hospitals have their unique characteristics. CEOs of Chinese
public hospitals face multiple difficulties and challenges, which influence the
performance of public hospitals. Leadership is an essential variable to organizational
effectiveness. Based on the Chinese culture context, paternalistic leadership featuring
authoritarianism, benevolence, and moral leadership, is one of the popular leadership
theories in Chinese businesses. Furthermore, innovation is an important contribution
to organizational performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the
relationship between paternalistic leadership, innovation and performance in Chinese
public hospitals. The sample includes 103 CEOs from public hospitals in 11 Chinese
provinces and the data collected using a survey. The research found that paternalistic
leadership and innovation did not have significant positive impact on hospital
performance. Paternalistic leadership had significant positive impact on innovation.
Additionally, paternalistic leadership did not moderate the relationship between
innovation and performance. Distinguishing the three elements of paternalistic
leadership, moral leadership had the expected positive effects. Moral leadership was
positively and significantly related to innovation and internal business processes of
performance. Moreover, moral leadership and innovation were both negatively related
to the financial performance and innovation is positively related to the learning and
growth of performance. Overall, moral leadership of paternalistic leadership had the
greatest impact for the public hospital CEOs. Therefore, these results emphasized the
importance of moral leadership in Chinese public hospitals. This study has some
limitations due to the use of only one questionnaire and the sample size in the study.
Future studies may examine the relationship between paternalistic leadership,
innovation and performance in other contexts.