Effect of Ethical Leadership Awareness on Nursing Managers' Levels of Workaholism

Background: Workaholism adversely affects personal health and relationships particularly among those in leadership roles. Ethical leaders are responsible for establishing a healthy, equitable, and supportive workplace that promotes wellbeing and deters workaholism.
Aim: This study aimed to assess the impact of ethical leadership awareness on nursing managers' levels of workaholism.
Methods: The study was a Quasi-experimental research design, using convenience sampling on 100 nursing managers working at Suez Canal University Hospitals. Three tools were leveraged to achieve the aim of the study included:Ethical leadership knowledge questionnaire, which consists of two parts: Part (1): Personal and work related data sheet of nursing managers and part (2):Ethical leadership knowledge questionnaire [Korean version ethical leadership at work questionnaire (KELW)],andworkaholism analysis questionnaire.
Results: 28%, 25% of nursing mangers had satisfactory knowledge and high attitude regarding ethical leadership pre-program implementation respectively, which increased to 92% and 94% of nursing mangers' had satisfactory knowledge and high attitude post-program implementation respectively.Conversely, nursing managers' level of workaholism decreased to 11.1 post program implementation.
Conclusion: There was a positive statistical significant correlation among ethical leadership knowledge and attitude at all program phases. Conversely, a negative statistically significant correlation was found between nursing managers' ethical leadership knowledge and attitude and their levels of workaholism throughout all program phases.