Healthcare Workforce Analytics: Computational Analysis of Despotic Leadership on Workplace Deviance, Emotional Exhaustion and Neuroticism's as a Mediation-Moderation.
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Despotic leadership harms both employee motivation and well-being. It has been studied using several theories, including social exchange and social learning theory, the latter suggesting learning stems from imitation. This study explores dark side of leadership, particularly in current healthcare reforms in Pakistan, such as Medical Teaching Institute (MTI). The need to review changing structural hierarchies is emphasized, as unilateral decisions often lead to defensive silence rather than workplace aggression and bullying. This study investigated the moderating role of neuroticism in the relationship between despotic leader- ship and workplace deviance, with emotional exhaustion mediating factor among healthcare sector employees. This study involved 294 professionals from public healthcare centres in Pakistan, achieving a 73% response rate. Five hypotheses were tested using Smart PLS for model testing and structural measurement along with SPSS and Preacher Hayes process models for moderated-mediation analysis. Results of linear regression analysis revealed that despotic leadership, mediated by emotional exhaustion, significantly impacts interpersonal and organizational deviance. Interestingly, neuroticism does not moderate this relationship, challenging previous literature. This study sheds light on despotic leadership's broader influence beyond personality attributes, offering new theoretical and practical implications and guiding future research directions.
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Health Care Analysis is a journal that promotes dialogue and debate about conceptual and normative issues related to health and health care, including health systems, healthcare provision, health law, public policy and health, professional health practice, health services organization and decision-making, and health-related education at all levels of clinical medicine, public health and global health. Health Care Analysis seeks to support the conversation between philosophy and policy, in particular illustrating the importance of conceptual and normative analysis to health policy, practice and research. As such, papers accepted for publication are likely to analyse philosophical questions related to health, health care or health policy that focus on one or more of the following: aims or ends, theories, frameworks, concepts, principles, values or ideology. All styles of theoretical analysis are welcome providing that they illuminate conceptual or normative issues and encourage debate between those interested in health, philosophy and policy. Papers must be rigorous, but should strive for accessibility – with care being taken to ensure that their arguments and implications are plain to a broad academic and international audience. In addition to purely theoretical papers, papers grounded in empirical research or case-studies are very welcome so long as they explore the conceptual or normative implications of such work. Authors are encouraged, where possible, to have regard to the social contexts of the issues they are discussing, and all authors should ensure that they indicate the ‘real world’ implications of their work. Health Care Analysis publishes contributions from philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, healthcare educators, healthcare professionals and administrators, and other health-related academics and policy analysts.