Leadership style and attitude to organizational change among health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Keywords:

leadership, organizational innovation, attitude of the health personnel, health professional-patient relationship.

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is generating changes in health organizations and front-line healthcare workers, who should take assertive decisions so that their leadership in their work teams is effective in the face of any situation.

Objective: Determine the relationship between leadership style and attitude toward organizational change among professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, applying a health technology approach.

Methods: A descriptive prospective correlational study was conducted of 215 qualified collegiate pharmaceutical chemists from the public and the private sectors who have access to information systems to conduct the drug supply management process. The first variable was measured with the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) 5X short form and the second with the questionnaire of attitude toward organizational change. Both tools applied the Likert scale and were evaluated for validity and reliability to adapt them to the Peruvian context.

Results: Pharmaceutical chemistry professionals showed to have a medium level in both leadership style and attitude toward organizational change. However, inferential analysis revealed a direct significant relationship between the study variables.

Conclusions: The moderate levels of transactional, transformational, corrective and passive / avoidant styles may be improved to achieve optimum leadership capable of dealing with transformations with better acceptance levels, preventing resistance to organizational change.

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Author Biographies

Thalia Melissa Alegre Alegre, Universidad César Vallejo. Chimbote.

Química Farmacéutica asistencial Magíster en Gestión de los Servicios de la Salud

Ericson Felix Castillo Saavedra, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo

Químico Farmacéutico Doctor en Ciencias Biomédicas Autor y coautor en revistas SCOPUS (Revista Cubana de Salud Pública, Revista Cubana de Enfermería, Index enfermería), Web of Science (Medisur, Duazary, Scientia agropecuaria) y Scielo (Revista Cubana de Química, Horizonte médico)

Cecilia Elizabeth Reyes Alfaro, Universidad César Vallejo, Escuela de Enfermeria. Trujillo.

Enfermera asistencial Doctora en Salud Pública Autora y coautora de artículos científicos indizados a base de datos Scielo, Scopus, Web of science

Rosa María Salas Sánchez, Universidad César Vallejo. Chimbote.

Doctora en Educación Autora y coautora de artículos científicos indizados a base de datos Scielo, Web of science

Published

2021-05-28

How to Cite

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Alegre Alegre TM, Castillo Saavedra EF, Reyes Alfaro CE, Salas Sánchez RM. Leadership style and attitude to organizational change among health professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rev Cubana Inv Bioméd [Internet]. 2021 May 28 [cited 2025 Jul. 27];40(5). Available from: https://revibiomedica.sld.cu/index.php/ibi/article/view/1527