Abstract
the main aim of this paper is to investigate the mediation effect of organizational climate on the relationship between Transformational Leadership and perceived patient safety in Saudi Hospitals from the nurses perspective. Patient safety has become a significant topic among health professionals, policy makers, and the public owing to the emphasis on the reported and unreported healthcare errors that result in negative situations. A quantitative research design was employed to collect data from nurses in Saudi hospitals to examine the hypothesized model. Out of 254 questionnaires distributed only 217 questionnaires were usable for analysis. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method was used to test the hypotheses. Based on the statistical results, this study supported the relationship between Transformational Leadership and organizational climate and the relationship between organizational climate and perception of patient safety. Finally, this study confirmed the full mediating effect of organizational climate on the relationship between Transformational Leadership and perception of patient safety. The findings of the study are of a great value to both theory and practice and have important implications for practitioners and policy-makers. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p117
Highlights
Patient safety has become a significant topic among health professionals, policy makers, and the public owing to the emphasis on the reported and unreported healthcare errors that result in negative situations
The convergent validity refers to the extent to which a set of items designed to measure a construct converge to measure the intended construct. It was examined by calculating the loadings, Average Variance Extracted (AVE) and Composite Reliability (CR) and assessing them with comparison to the cut-off values suggested by the literature
Our finding showed that transformational Leadership had a positive significant impact on organizational climate
Summary
Patient safety has become a significant topic among health professionals, policy makers, and the public owing to the emphasis on the reported and unreported healthcare errors that result in negative situations. Organizational climate refers to the acknowledged features of the organization and its sub-systems as reflected in its way of dealing with members, groups and issues (Asha, 2008) It is a set of measurable properties of the work environment, which is directly and indirectly perceived by the individuals at the workplace and assumed to affect their motivation and behavior (Litwin& Stringer, 1968). Based on this definition, organizational climate may be described as the individual’s attitude towards organizations (e.g., trust level, morale, conflict, rewards equity, leadership credibility, change resistance and scapegoating (Ngo et al, 2009). The objective of the study is to examine the mediating effect of organizational climate in the transformational leadership and patient safety relationship in Saudi public hospitals
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