Front Line Leadership in Organisations for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Leadership is crucial for frontline managers leading direct support staff in intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) services because it impacts both the staff and service users.

Method

A systematic review using CADIMA software, guided by the 2020 PRISMA statement, analysed 32 articles from Scopus, WOS, PsycINFO and EBSCO databases.

Results

Practice Leadership (PL) emerges as the most commonly applied theoretical model, although other approaches, such as transformational leadership, are also utilised. PL showed significant associations with positive outcomes for service users (improved quality of life, fewer challenging behaviours) and staff (lower stress, higher job satisfaction). Specific competencies for frontline managers were identified. Despit

SUBMITTER: Fajardo-Castro LV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12462737 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature