Relationship between the Transformational Leadership Style and Communication Climate in the Intensive Care Unit: A Comparative Study

Transformational leadership styles and communication climate in the intensive careunits (I.C.Us) foster innovation behaviors of staff nurses in organization, in particular, in theI.C.Us. Objective: To assess and compare the relationship of transformational leadershipstyle and communication climate. Setting: I.C.Us (Damanhour National Medical Institute(DNMI) and Alexandria Main University Hospital (AMUH). Subjects: 141 staff nurses whoare working in the previously mentioned two hospitals: 62 staff nurses at DNMI, 79 staffnurses at AMUH. Tools: Tool I: Multifactor leadership questionnaire (MLQ), Tool II:communication climate inventory questionnaire (CCIQ). Results: No significant differencewere found in both total level of: transformational leadership style and communicationclimate in the two hospitals. Moreover, in DNMI had proved to be significantly positivestrong correlation between total transformational leadership style with total communicationclimate and in AMUH had proved to be significantly moderate correlation between totaltransformational leadership style with total communication climate. Conclusion: a significantpositive strong correlation between total transformational leadership style with totalcommunication climate in DNMI while a significant positive moderate correlation betweentotal transformational leadership style with total communication climate in AMUH.Recommendations: In-service training program should be conducted periodically for headnurses and staff nurses about different leadership styles, its importance and its impact in thecommunication climate in the intensive care units.