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Biomedicine and Nursing
Biomedicine and Nursing
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Abstract: Background: Globalization and development of communication technologies resulted in ethical
problems in health care settings as well. Consequently, in all areas of life, such as politics, media and education,
administrators make ethical decisions and behave in an ethical manner while resolving disputes and enhancing the
sense of trust between subordinates and interaction, so as to receive feedback. Aim: Assess the relationship among
ethical leadership (EL) and nurses’ feedback-seeking behavior from supervisors and coworkers, leader-member
exchange (LMX) and psychological empowerment, in addition, testing a new mediation model that examines LMX
and psychological empowerment as the mediators in the relationships between Ethical Leadership and nurses’
feedback-seeking behavior from supervisors and coworkers. Design: A descriptive correlational study design was
used. Sample: A stratified, random sample was chosen of 400 nurses. Tools: A questionnaire sheet was used to
gather data for this research, containing six parts: Personal characteristics of the studied nurses, EL scale, feedback
seeking from supervisor scale, feedback seeking from coworkers scale, leader-member exchange scale, and
psychological empowerment scale. Results: Findings revealed that Ethical Leadership was significantly and
positively correlated to feedback seeking from supervisors, feedback seeking from coworkers, leader-member
exchange, and psychological empowerment. Conclusion: The LMX and psychological empowerment are mediated
of relationship between ethical leadership and feedback seeking from both nurse supervisors and coworkers.
Recommendations: Increase training program about ethical leadership and encouraging it. Integrating relationship
building training into Ethical Leadership development programs and giving opportunities for supervisors to develop
their EL to motivate nurses to seek feedback.
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