Effect of Ethical Leadership Awareness on Nursing Managers' Levels of Workaholism | ||||
The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine | ||||
Article 125, Volume 99, Issue 1, April 2025, Page 2257-2264 PDF (642.95 K) | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejhm.2025.432244 | ||||
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Abstract | ||||
Background: Workaholism adversely affects personal health and relationships particularly among those in leadership roles. Ethical leaders are responsible for establishing a healthy, equitable, and supportive workplace that promotes wellbeing and deters workaholism. Aim: This study aimed to assess the impact of ethical leadership awareness on nursing managers' levels of workaholism. Methods: The study was a Quasi-experimental research design, using convenience sampling on 100 nursing managers working at Suez Canal University Hospitals. Three tools were leveraged to achieve the aim of the study included:Ethical leadership knowledge questionnaire, which consists of two parts: Part (1): Personal and work related data sheet of nursing managers and part (2):Ethical leadership knowledge questionnaire [Korean version ethical leadership at work questionnaire (KELW)],andworkaholism analysis questionnaire. Results: 28%, 25% of nursing mangers had satisfactory knowledge and high attitude regarding ethical leadership pre-program implementation respectively, which increased to 92% and 94% of nursing mangers' had satisfactory knowledge and high attitude post-program implementation respectively.Conversely, nursing managers' level of workaholism decreased to 11.1 post program implementation. Conclusion: There was a positive statistical significant correlation among ethical leadership knowledge and attitude at all program phases. Conversely, a negative statistically significant correlation was found between nursing managers' ethical leadership knowledge and attitude and their levels of workaholism throughout all program phases. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Awareness; Ethical leadership; Nursing managers; Workaholism | ||||
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