TITLE:
Strike Actions in the Health Sector: Does Leadership Play a Role? A Study of College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana
AUTHORS:
Daniel Agyemfour-Agyemang Sarpong, Isaac Anyasor Kpabi, Gladys Esinu Abiew, Anita Ampofoa Adomako
KEYWORDS:
Leadership Behaviour, Strike Action, Industrial Harmony, Dispute
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Leadership,
Vol.11 No.4,
December
13,
2022
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to determine the
extent to which leadership style contributes to striking actions in the Health Sector. The study adopted a quantitative
approach with a sample size of 149. A Structured
Standardize Questionnaire was used to gather data from the respondents. Mean,
standard deviation and frequency count were used to analyze the data. The study
revealed that bureaucratic and autocratic leadership styles were
among the causes of the strike action; coupled with
delays in salary increments, poor working conditions, unfairness in promotion, and non-involvement
of union leaders in decision-making. The study also revealed that the strike
action of the college affects patient care, students’ academic programmes, and productivity as well as cause loss of employees’ wages. The study
recommended measures to curtail strike action such as improvement in the condition of service for employees, involvement of union leaders in decision-making,
fairness in promotion procedure and more importantly, adoption
of democratic, transformational and transactional leadership instead of
bureaucratic and autocratic style would create industrial harmony in the school.