Impact of decentralized management on sickness absence in hospitals: a two-wave cohort study of frontline managers in Danish hospital wards.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study explores the impact of decentralized management on the sickness absence among healthcare professionals. Sickness absence is a reliable indicator of employees' wellbeing and it is linked to management quality. However, the influence of decentralized management on sickness absence has not been adequately studied.

Methods

The research design combined a two-wave, web-survey of frontline managers in two Danish university hospitals with administrative data on sickness absence at the ward-level. The first and second wave included data from 163165 and 137 frontline managers linked to 121 wards and 108 wards. Data was analysed using an ordinal logistic regression model.

Results

Wards where frontline managers had the highest level of decentralised decision

SUBMITTER: Prætorius T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11250969 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature