Leadership Styles and Personality Traits of Health Professions Educators: A Scoping Review

Asad Muhammad Karim Ali, Gul Muhammad Shaikh, Raheela Yasmin, Junaid Sarfraz Khan, Humera Javed , Rehan Khan

Abstract

Objective
The objective of this study was to explore the existing literature to examine the leadership styles and personality traits of health professions educators.

Materials and Methods: The method of the review was grounded in the Arksey and O'Malley framework for scoping review. Literature was searched using Pub Med, Google Scholar and Pakmedinet, with Boolean command leadership styles and the personality trait. First and second level screening was performed. The full text articles were evaluated for quality using QualSyst. Article below 50 coefficients were excluded. PRISMA framework was used to represent the identified and selected full text articles.

Results
Search from the PubMed and Pakmedinet produced the eight articles. Additional search from the Google Scholar produced 12 articles based on predetermined criteria. Nine full text articles were evaluated on the QualSyst checklist and four articles were excluded for having quality score less than 50. Most of the individuality traits were correlated to the upper efficiency under initiating leadership style. Only the candidness would improve effectiveness of leader under the soaring initiating structure and low down consideration leadership style. A disappointing environment is lessening the incidence with which the trainee speak up while he or she witnesses a surgical error. Personality is only weakly related to leadership.

Conclusion
The study found no significant relationship between leadership style and personality of health professions educators. There was great variability among the available literature. There is dire need for more research to examine the relationship of leadership style and personality traits.