Organizational Cynicism and Work Alienation among Staff Nurses and it its Relation to their Commitment.

Background: Managerial intelligence has gained momentum where developing head nurses' competency as professionals, preventing nurses from departing their current positions and can impact on nurses thriving. Aim: To determine the influence of intensive care nurses' perception of managerial intelligence on their thriving and job embeddedness. Method: A descriptive, comparative, correlational research design was utilized . Setting: All intensive care units at Tanta Main University and EL-Salam Hospitals. Subjects: All available intensive care nurses at above mentioned settings. Tools: Thre tools were used; Head Nurse Managerial Intelligence, Nurses' Thriving, and Job Embeddedness Questionnaire. Results: At El Salam Hospital around two-thirds (64.1%) of nurses had a high level of perception regarding their head nurses' managerial intelligence, and more than half (57.3%) of nurses had a high level of perception at Tanta Main University Hospital. At El Salam Hospital the majority (75.3%) of nurses had high level of thriving at work place while, at Tanta Main University Hospital more than half (54.7%) of nurses had high level of thriving at work place. The highest percent of nurses (66.5% and 60.7%) had a high level of job embeddedness at El Salam and Tanta Main University Hospitals, respectively. Conclusion: There were statistically significant positive correlations between head nurse managerial intelligence, nurses, job embeddeness and nurses, thriving at work place at El-Salam and Tanta Main University hospitals. Recommendations: Periodic attendance of training programs to refresh head nurses, knowledge and skills related to managerial intelligence.