Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Associate Professor of Nursing Management and Education Department, College of Nursing, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Int Nurs Rev. 2024 Dec;71(4):868-878. doi: 10.1111/inr.12934. Epub 2024 Jan 13.
This study aims to explore the relationship between collaborative leadership and nurses' productive work performance as well as the mediating role of nurses' innovative behavior in this relationship.
Collaborative leadership is an imperative necessity in the contemporary turbulent healthcare environment as it provides a collaborative atmosphere where innovative behavior and productive performance of nurses are fostered, hence moving healthcare organizations toward competitiveness and sustainability.
A cross-sectional descriptive correlational exploratory research design was used to conduct the study. Data were collected from 550 nurses recruited from three large university hospitals in Alexandria, Egypt, using three instruments, namely, interprofessional collaborative leadership in healthcare teams scale, productive work performance questionnaire, and innovative behavior inventory. The instruments of the study are Likert-type questionnaires through which nurses' perspectives regarding study variables were investigated. We used descriptive statistics, inferential statistics as well as structured equation modeling (SEM).
SEM revealed that collaborative leadership accounted for 83% of the variance of individual productive work performance and 77% of the variance of nurses' innovative behavior. Moreover, nurses' innovative behavior partially mediates the relationship between collaborative leadership and their productive work performance.
Collaborative leadership practices are powerful strategies to enhance the innovative behavior of nurses and sustain their productive work performance.
Fostering a collaborative atmosphere in workplace is mandatory for nurses' innovativeness. Replacing hierarchal leadership styles with collaborative ones is a promising strategy to enhance the productive performance of nurses. Healthcare managers and leaders could cultivate an interprofessional collaborative culture in the workplace in order to sustain productivity and eradicate counterproductive work behaviors among healthcare providers.
本研究旨在探讨协作领导与护士生产性工作绩效之间的关系，以及护士创新行为在这一关系中的中介作用。
协作领导是当代动荡的医疗保健环境的必然需要，因为它提供了一个协作的氛围，在这个氛围中可以培养护士的创新行为和生产性绩效，从而使医疗保健组织具有竞争力和可持续性。
采用横断面描述性相关探索性研究设计进行研究。数据来自埃及亚历山大的三家大型大学医院的 550 名护士，使用三种工具，即医疗团队协作领导能力量表、生产性工作绩效问卷和创新行为量表。研究工具是李克特式问卷，通过这些问卷调查护士对研究变量的看法。我们使用描述性统计、推断统计和结构方程建模（SEM）。
SEM 显示，协作领导占个体生产性工作绩效变化的 83%，占护士创新行为变化的 77%。此外，护士的创新行为部分中介了协作领导与生产性工作绩效之间的关系。
协作领导实践是增强护士创新行为和维持其生产性工作绩效的有力策略。
在工作场所营造协作氛围对护士的创新能力至关重要。用协作领导风格取代等级领导风格是提高护士生产性绩效的一项有前途的策略。医疗保健经理和领导者可以在工作场所培养一种跨专业的协作文化，以维持生产力并消除医疗保健提供者的反生产性行为。
