Facilitating Internal Audit Quality and Improving the Performance of Medical Clinics

This article provides a novel contribution to the literature of public sector organizations in general and healthcare organizations in particular. The authors explore the ways leaders help facilitate internal audit quality and drive work performance by employing a mixed-methods approach in which qualitative data was collected to construct a new concept—audit-enabling leadership—followed by time-lagged data collected from multiple respondents. The findings indicate that two facets—professional and relational behaviours— constitute audit-enabling leadership.