Nursing Staff Perception of Toxic Leadership and Job Security

Abo Salih, Salwa Ramadan; El Demerdash, Safaa Mohamed; Ahmed, Samer Hosny; Mahmoud, Seham Aly

doi:10.21608/tsnj.2023.298499

Nursing Staff Perception of Toxic Leadership and Job Security

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Clinical demonstrator of nursing administration department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University.

² Professor of Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University.

³ Lecturer of Nursing Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University.

10.21608/tsnj.2023.298499

Abstract

Background. Toxic leadership becomes a real problem in nursing administration. Its toxicity
harms the nursing staff's progress and creates a challenging work environment full of struggles
that in turn, produce adverse outcomes on the nursing staff motivation, productivity and
cooperation which consequently effect on nursing staff's job security. Aim of the study: To
assess nursing staff's perception of toxic leadership and job security. Subjects and Method.
Research design: A descriptive - correlational design was applied. Subjects: A total number
of stratified random sample was 310 out of 1618 nurses who were enrolled during data
collection time. It divided as follows: Main hospital (160), Chest hospital (50), Pediatric
hospital (50), Medical hospital (50). Tools: Two tools for data collection were used. the first,
Nursing Staff's Perception of Toxic Leadership Questionnaire and the second Nursing Staff'
Job Security Scale. Results: nearly two thirds (60.0%) of nursing staff had a high-level
perception of overall toxic Leadership. Two thirds (63.2%) of nursing staff had a low
perception level of overall job security. Conclusion: The present study showed a highly
statistically significant negative correlation between nursing staff perception of overall toxic
leadership and overall job security. Recommendations: Establish leadership educational
programs to provide health care leaders with the skills they need to build an organization of
collaboration and participative management and managing complex care environments that
leads to high sensation of job security