Background: Toxic leadership is ineffective behavior that reflects leadership'snegative/dark side and can negatively affect not only the followers but also the wholeorganization. Aim: The present study aimed to examine toxic leadership and its relation tonurses' absenteeism and their deviant behaviors. Research Design: Descriptive correlationaldesign was utilized. Study Setting: the study was conducted in all inpatient's medical,surgical departments, and critical care units at Benha University Hospital. The study samplewas A purposive sample of (250) nurses after conducting sample size from the settingmentioned above. Data collection tools: Three tools were used to collect the data: Toxicleadership scale, nurses' absenteeism questionnaire, and deviant workplace behaviors Scale.Results: The findings of this study showed that slightly more than three-fifth of nurses(61.8%) perceived a low level of toxic leadership. Also, the highest mean percent was relatedto personal factor, the relationship between supervisors and nursing staff, and self-fulfillment(70.6%&70.4& 69%) respectively as the most causes of nursing absenteeism. Besides, mostof studied nurses (83.6%) had negative work deviance behaviors. Conclusion: The studyconcluded that there was a statistically significant positive correlation between perceivedtoxic leadership, nursing absenteeism, and deviant workplace behaviors. Recommendation:The study recommended establishing leadership training programs to provide health careleaders and supervisors with the skills they need to build a collaborative and participatorymanagement organization, thus reducing nursing absenteeism and their deviant behaviors.
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Zaki et al. (2021) studied this question.