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Between Care and Mental Health: Experiences of Managers and Workers on Leadership, Organizational Dimensions, and Gender Inequalities in Hospital Work

Originally published 2025-05-14 · Healthcare
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/healthcare13101144 ↗

CollaborationQualitative cross-sectional manager and worker interview studyCC BY 4.0
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Workplace evidence

Work, care and the whole person.

Relevant to decisions about a joint worker-manager conversation about role stress; the original evidence concerns 64 clinical and administrative public-hospital workers in Santiago, Chile.

Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.

Editorial reading guide · Collaboration

Can managers and staff describe the same problem from different sides?

This reading brings different manager and worker perspectives on recognition, role stress and leadership into the collaboration pathway. The qualitative cross-sectional manager and worker interview study offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.

Study context

64 clinical and administrative public-hospital workers in Santiago, Chile

Age / stage: Working adults; family-work responsibilities discussed

Read with three questions

  1. How did the researchers define and assess constructive and destructive leadership themes?
  2. What does the study design allow us to conclude about differences in operational constraints, fairness and recognition?
  3. What would need to be checked before adopting a joint worker-manager conversation about role stress?

Keep the limits in view

Grounded-theory accounts do not establish causal health effects or prevalence; one hospital context cannot represent all organizations.

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Elisa Ansoleaga; Magdalena Ahumada; Elena Soto-Contreras; Javier Vera (2025). Between Care and Mental Health: Experiences of Managers and Workers on Leadership, Organizational Dimensions, and Gender Inequalities in Hospital Work Healthcare. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13101144

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