Background: Nurse Manager's leadership style is very important for shaping a
nurse's personality by motivating their staff and increasing their nurse autonomy, self-
confidence, and decision-making. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between
nurse managers' leadership styles and their staff nurse's autonomy. Subjects & Methods;
Research design: a descriptive correlational design was used in carrying out this study, which
was conducted at general Suez Hospital affiliated to the ministry of health and composed of
seven buildings (emergency building, I.C.U and dialysis building, operating theater building,
burns building and laparoscope building, obstetric building and outpatient clinic building).
The study subjects were included in two groups namely: nurse managers group composed of
58 nurse managers and staff nurses group composed of 165 staff nurses. Tools: Two
questionnaires were used to collect the data namely leadership style questionnaire for nurse
manager and Autonomy questionnaire for staff nurses. Results: The study findings revealed
that, fifty percent of studied nurse manager were transactional and the majority of the studied
staff nurses had moderate level of autonomy regarding patient care, collaboration, patient
education, handling patient complaints, diagnosis discharge decisions, and the related issue.
Conclusion & Recommendation: Based on the study finding it concluded that, the majority
of the studied staff nurse mangers had transactional leadership style and the majority of the
studied nurse had moderate autonomy regarding to patient care, collaboration, patient
education, handling patient complaints, diagnosis discharge decisions, and related issues.
Hence, the study recommended that, development programs involve training, coaching and
mentoring and needs to explore the barriers that nurse face in autonomous decision-making.