Effect of Resilience on Work Engagement under Authentic Leadership

Abstract

Background: Authentic leadership is a suitable leadership model that results directly or indirectly in more positive workplace behaviors and attitudes, including employees' resilience and work engagement. Aim: To assess the effects of resilience on work engagement under authentic leadership. Design: A descriptive correlational design was used for this study. Setting: This study was conducted at El-Rajehy and Al Orman, Hospitals. Subjects: Convenient sample was used in this study total number (345) which includes (305) nurses and (40) head nurses in the predetermined setting. Results: The highest percentages of nurses who have good work engagement and high resilience were working in Al Orman Hospital. Moreover, the head nurses working in Al Orman Hospital had the highest mean scores on authentic leadership. Conclusion: There was a strong positive correlation between resilience and work engagement with highly statistically significant differences, and there was a positive correlation between authentic leadership and resilience with highly statistically significant differences. Recommendation: Managers should constantly evaluate employee resilience levels and develop strategies and use resources to ensure that employees are encouraged to adopt good work engagement attitudes.