Department of Community and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.
J Adv Nurs. 2024 Sep;80(9):3666-3678. doi: 10.1111/jan.16117. Epub 2024 Feb 20.
The leader's ability to act with self-awareness, lead with generosity, and consider others' opinions is what defines humility leadership. In recent healthcare literature, there has been extensive exploration of humility leadership and psychological safety, but these studies were non-nursing. It is crucial to understand how humble leaders can empower their staff's psychological safety, as inclusivity is a key aspect of humility leadership and is closely linked to psychological safety. Therefore, this study examined the association between nursing leaders' humility leadership and team members' psychological safety.
A quantitative cross-sectional design was used in the current study.
To assess the studied variables, 245 nursing academics, nurses, and nursing leaders were recruited from different universities and hospitals using the convenience snowball sampling technique, yielding a response rate of 70%. After a pilot study, an online survey using Google Forms was hosted in 2022.
The psychological safety of nursing team members was not found to be associated with the humility leadership of nursing leaders. Despite the participants' reports of their nursing leaders exhibiting humility leadership (mean = 3.57/5, SE = 0.055), the participants also reported that psychological safety was borderline (mean = 3.09/5, SE = 0.041).
The borderline nursing team members' psychological safety implies that different types of leadership may have an impact on the psychological safety of nursing team members. The lack of association between nursing leaders' humility leadership and the psychological safety of nursing team members highlights the need for further understanding and effort from nursing leaders to establish psychologically safe work environments.
This research offers valuable insights into how the humility of nursing leaders impacts the psychological safety of nursing team members. The psychological safety of the nursing team members highlights the specific responsibilities that nursing leaders should assume to establish psychologically safe work environments.
There was no Patient or Public Contribution, as the sample included nursing academics, nurses, and nursing leaders recruited from different universities and hospitals.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE/POLICY: A simple intervention that humble leaders can initiate is inclusivity, where subordinates' positive worth, strengths, and contributions are acknowledged. Inclusivity is a characteristic of humility leadership. Improving teams'' psychological safety calls to promote a culture of civility in the workplace. A random and larger sample is needed, including other types of universities and hospitals, using other research designs across other cultures.
领导者的自我意识、慷慨领导和考虑他人意见的能力定义了谦逊领导力。在最近的医疗保健文献中，人们广泛探讨了谦逊领导力和心理安全，但这些研究都不是护理领域的。了解谦逊领导者如何能够增强员工的心理安全至关重要，因为包容性是谦逊领导力的一个关键方面，与心理安全密切相关。因此，本研究考察了护理领导者的谦逊领导力与团队成员的心理安全之间的关联。
本研究采用定量的横断面设计。
为了评估研究变量，我们采用方便雪球抽样技术从不同的大学和医院招募了 245 名护理学者、护士和护理领导者，回应率为 70%。在进行试点研究后，我们于 2022 年使用 Google 表单举办了一项在线调查。
我们没有发现护理团队成员的心理安全与护理领导者的谦逊领导力相关。尽管参与者报告他们的护理领导者表现出谦逊领导力（平均值=3.57/5，标准误=0.055），但参与者也报告说心理安全处于边缘状态（平均值=3.09/5，标准误=0.041）。
护理团队成员的心理安全处于边缘状态表明，不同类型的领导风格可能会对护理团队成员的心理安全产生影响。护理领导者的谦逊领导力与护理团队成员的心理安全之间缺乏关联突出表明，护理领导者需要进一步理解并努力营造心理安全的工作环境。
本研究提供了关于护理领导者的谦逊如何影响护理团队成员的心理安全的宝贵见解。护理团队成员的心理安全突出了护理领导者应承担的建立心理安全工作环境的具体责任。
由于样本包括从不同大学和医院招募的护理学者、护士和护理领导者，因此没有患者或公众参与。
对实践/政策的影响：谦逊的领导者可以采取的一个简单干预措施是包容性，即承认下属的积极价值、优势和贡献。包容性是谦逊领导力的一个特征。提高团队的心理安全需要促进工作场所的文明文化。需要使用其他研究设计在其他文化中对更大的随机样本进行研究，包括其他类型的大学和医院。
