Is Temporal Leadership Always Effective? A Study on Investment Decision-Making of Rural Public Health Resources by Local Government in China

In order to explore the mechanism of the influence of temporal leadership on the procedural rationality of decision-making on rural public health resources investment in local governments, this study established a regression model about groupthink as a mediating variable and relationship closeness as a moderating variable. The results of the study are as follows. Temporal leadership has a significant negative impact on the procedural rationality of decision-making. Groupthink in the decision-making team plays a fully mediating role in the relationship between temporal leadership and the procedural rationality of decision-making. And the relationship closeness of the team members plays a positive moderating role between groupthink and the procedural rationality of decision-making. From the perspective of technology management, this study not only delves into the relationship between leadership style and decision-making processes but also further reveals the mediating role of groupthink in decision-making and the influence of team relationships on the decision-making process. These findings have important implications for team decision-making, leadership development, and project resource allocation in the field of technology management.