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Abstract
Ambidextrous leadership is the most effective style assist nurse leaders to promote
nursing creativity and encourage nurses to think independently and use their innovative
attitude in enhancing work productivity and develop innovative workplace environment.
Aim of the study:
Investigate ambidextrous leadership style of first-line nurse managers and its
relationship with innovative work behavior from nurses’ perspective.
Setting of the study
This study was conducted at Alexandria Main University which is affiliated to
Alexandria University. It provides public free health services. It is the largest teaching
hospital in Alexandria Governorate. It is the first university hospital started serious steps to
fulfill requirements of the General Authority for Health Accreditation and Regulation
(GAHAR). The study was conducted at all critical care units (N= 23).
Subjects of the study
The total population of nurses n= 415 who work in the previously mentioned units, the
targets subject n= 360 were recruited to collect necessary data by using convenient sample.
Tools:
Two tools were used in the study.:
Tool I: Ambidextrous Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ):
It was developed by Rosing et al., (2011) and was adopted by the current researcher to
ask nurses to rate their first line nurse managers’ ambidextrous leadership behaviors using
opening and closing behaviors. It consists of 14 items divided into two dimensions namely,
opening ambidextrous leader behaviors and closing ambidextrous leader behaviors, each
dimension has seven items.
The nurses’ responses were measured on a five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly
agrees (5) to strongly disagree (1). The overall score is ranging from 14 to 70; low
ambidextrous leadership from 14 < 32.6, moderate ambidextrous leadership 32.6 < 51.3, and
high ambidextrous leadership 51.3 < 70. The reliability of this tool was tested by Rosing et al.,
2011), and Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient was 0.90, 0.81 for opening and closing
ambidextrous leadership behaviors respectively.
Tool II: Innovative Behavior Inventory Questionnaire (IBIQ):
It was developed by Lukes and Stephan (2017) and was adopted by the current researcher to
assess the level of innovative work behavior among nurses. It composed of 23 items that are
grouped into seven dimensions, including idea generation (3 items), idea search (3items), idea
communication (4 items), implementation starting activities (3 items), involving others (3 items),
overcoming obstacles (4 items), and innovation outputs (3 items). The responses were measured
on a five-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). The overall
score will be ranged from 23 to115 and low IWB 23 < 53.7, moderate IWB 53.7 < 84.4, and high
level of IWB 84,4 < 115. The reliability of this tool was tested by Elsayed et al., (2024), and