Impact of the Leadership in Managing the Quality of Care: A Comparative Analysis of Healthcare in Qassim Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to find the relationship between leadership and its impact on quality of healthcare. Survey approach using questionnaire was used for data collection. Population of the study was from Qassim health sector employees. A total of 200 completed questionnaires were collected back and used in the analysis in this study. Correlation analysis and regression analysis were used to test hypotheses. It was found that all the predictors and criterion have moderate and positive relationship. Likewise, there is significant impact of leadership found on quality of healthcare in Saudi Arabia; finding are consistent with that previous studies. Based on findings, the study suggests that participative style of the leader not only encourage the people to give their input in decision making and formulation of plans but also play greater role in implementation too. Therefore, friendly, accommodative, democratic, encouraging, and liberal work environment may be created by management of the hospitals because such kind of an environment increase the level of performance and advantageous in materializing the predefined objectives of quality management, that also supplements better healthcare outcomes. Future researcher can conduct studies with larger sample to generalize the findings since this study used a small sample size only from one region.