Empowering Leadership and Its Relation to Nurses’ Work Engagement at Minia Fever Hospital

Mahdy, Eman Ahmed; Aref, Sanaa Mohammed; Abd-Elhamid, Eman Aly

doi:10.21608/msnj.2025.406601.1183

Empowering Leadership and Its Relation to Nurses’ Work Engagement at Minia Fever Hospital

Document Type : Original articles

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¹ B.Sc. Nursing

² Retired Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing - Minia University.

³ Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University.

10.21608/msnj.2025.406601.1183

Abstract

Background: Empowering leadership enhances nurses’ psychological empowerment, affective commitment, and work engagement by fostering autonomy, support, confidence, and job satisfaction. Aim of the study: To assess empowering leadership and its relation to nurses’ work engagement. Research design: A descriptive correlational research design. Setting: The study was conducted at Minia Fever Hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample of (168) nurses participated. Tools of data collection: Two tools were as follows: tool (I), Empowering Leadership Scale, the 1^st part was personal data, and the 2^nd part was the empowering leadership scale. Tool (II) Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Results: Reveals that more than three-fifths of the nurses reported that a high level of total empowering leadership and more than half of them had a high level of total engagement. Conclusion: There was a positive, statistically significant correlation between empowering leadership and work engagement (p = 0.034). Recommendation: Implement leadership training programs that promote autonomy, support, and shared decision-making to enhance nurses’ psychological empowerment, commitment, and work engagement in healthcare settings.

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