Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Servant leadership and job satisfaction in medical assistants: mediating effect of work-life balance and burnout
Originally published 2026-07-14 · Journal of Health Organization and Management
Emerald · DOI 10.1108/JHOM-01-2026-0071 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about leadership development for a medical-assistant team; the original evidence concerns 998 certified medical assistants in the United States recruited purposively and by convenience.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
Would a manager who serves the team change how work feels at home?
This reading brings servant leadership, work-life balance, burnout and job satisfaction in medical assistants into the trust pathway. The cross-sectional correlational survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
998 certified medical assistants in the United States recruited purposively and by convenience
Age / stage: Working adults; predominantly female respondents
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess servant leadership, balance and burnout measures?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about the convenience sample and the proposed mediating relationships?
- What would need to be checked before adopting leadership development for a medical-assistant team?
Keep the limits in view
Cross-sectional reports cannot show leadership causes satisfaction; recruitment through a professional association and a predominantly female sample constrain transfer.
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Jayanthi Sebastian; John Harrison; Grace M. Hildenbrand; Shaoping Qiu (2026). Servant leadership and job satisfaction in medical assistants: mediating effect of work-life balance and burnout Journal of Health Organization and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-01-2026-0071
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