Healing the Healers: The Impact of Inspirational Leadership on Job Burnout

This research examines the moderating effect of inspirational leadership to address job burnout among health care providers in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This way, it separately measures the level of the independent variable inspirational leadership and the dependent variable job burnout. A cross-sectional quantitative descriptive - analytical study using structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the total number of employees of all the health care centers in Bahrain, which was 2,289 employees. There is an agreement of using random sampling method for distributing questionnaires to employees, a total of 340 employees were selected out of which 289 participants' response was retrieved and it showed response rate of 85 percent. The observed study results showed a negative correlation between inspirational leadership and job burnout. The top driver in managing burnout was thus leaders' strategic positioning, and their vision, which shapes the goals for strategic as well as operational management. Similar to the previous outcome, organizational values also have considerably formed the opinions, whereas administrative communication with employees and other sectors has ranked third. Last but not the least, on the basis of their impact on burnout, the percent of employee empowerment and delegation of authority stood at fifth.