Authentic Leadership and its Influence on Job Embeddedness among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Context: A novel style of leadership known as "authentic leadership" involves leaders presenting how effectively a person is socially integrated inside their organization, fostering sincere relationships, and operating from an ethical base. Additionally affect the employee’s embeddings at work. Job embeddedness is the joint force that keeps an individual from leaving. Aim: The study aimed to assess authentic leadership and its influence on job embeddedness among staff nurses. Methods: A correlational descriptive design was employed to carry out this study at Ain Shams University Hospital on a random sample of 185 staff nurses out of 310 eligible to participate in this study. Two tools were utilized in this study: The Authentic Leadership Inventory and the Job Embeddedness Scale. Results: reveal that 61% of studied nurses had a low total perception level of authentic leadership, and 50% had a high total level of job embeddedness. Conclusion: A highly statistically significant negative correlation was shown between total staff nurses’ perception level of authentic leadership and job embeddedness. Managers should provide flexibility to staff nurses to keep them motivated and more productive. Nurse managers should meet with nurses frequently to hear about and address their concerns and to communicate their feelings.