Distributive Leadership Practice and Managerial Knowledge Sharing among Nurse Managers: A mediator for Innovative Work Behavior among Nurses | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 99, Volume 12, Issue 4, December 2021, Page 1535-1549 PDF (496.59 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2021.211503 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Rehab, M., Rashad1; Marwa, H., Ageiz2 | ||||
| 1Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University. | ||||
| 2Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Distributive leadership practice based mainly on engaging experiences, skills and knowledge of those who are expert in different functional levels, thus, encouraging professionals to utilize their acquired knowledge and skills to develop new ways of working creatively. Aim: The current study aimed to determine the level of distributive leadership practice and managerial knowledge sharing from the nurse managers’ perspective and whether its relations to innovative work behavior of the nurses. Design: Descriptive, correlational research design was used. Setting: All inpatient units (39 units) in Benha Hospital, Qalubia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: All the nurse managers (n=63) and a convenience sample of the nurses working at the selected inpatient units at the hospital (no=172). Tools: 3 tools used for data collection: Distributive leadership practices Questionnaire, Managerial Knowledge Sharing Questionnaire, and Innovative Work Behavior Inventory. Results: Total mean score of distributive leadership practices from the studied nurse managers’ perspective was (92.37±19.25) with a percentage (68.4%), total mean score of studied nurse managers regarding their managerial knowledge sharing was (45.93±8.79) with a percentage (76.6%), while the innovative work behavior among the studied nurses had a total mean score of (50.36±3.01) and a percentage (85.4%).Conclusion: Distributive leadership practice and managerial knowledge sharing were at moderate level, while nurses’ innovative work behavior was at high level. In addition; there was a highly significant positive correlation between distributive leadership practice and managerial knowledge sharing. Moreover, there was a highly significant positive correlation between managerial knowledge sharing and nurses’ innovative work behavior, however, there was no significant correlation between distributive leadership practice and innovative work behavior among nurses. Recommendations: Providing nurse managers with opportunities to participate in a situated leadership practice and engage in action learning groups that incorporate the concept of distributed leadership. Leaders in the organizations should encourage employees to the generation and implementation of innovative ideas through enhancing distributive leadership practice and managerial Knowledge Sharing | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Distributive leadership practice; innovative work behavior; managerial knowledge sharing; nurses; and nurse managers | ||||
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