Staff Nurses Perception Regarding Nursing Managers` Leadership Practices and It`s Relation to Their Knowledge Sharing

Abstract

Leadership practices and knowledge sharing are major factors for the success of organizations as leadership practices are important motivational factors for knowledge sharing and employee tend to gather useful information from their leaders’ practices and behaviors to shape the perception of the work. Aim: Aimed at assessing the relationship between staff nurse’s perception regarding nursing managers` leadership practices and their knowledge sharing. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive correlational design was used in carrying out this study. The study was conducted at El Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Hospital. Study subjects were 129 out of 190 staff nurse. Data collection tools were Leadership Practices Inventory and Knowledge Sharing questionnaire. Results: Staff nurses' perceived their nurse’s managers' leadership practices were high frequency (76.44%) and the majority of staff nurses had high level of knowledge sharing (82.28%). Conclusion: There was positive statistical significant correlation between nurse managers’ leadership practices and staff nurse’s knowledge sharing. Recommendations: Leaders need to facilitate knowledge sharing by building positive work environment and listen to the dreams of nurses for creating trust and emotional relationships with them to enhance their knowledge sharing and builds.