Table 1 presents distribution of studied nurses according to
their socio demographic characteristics. This table shows that
the studied subjects consisted of 228 nurses enrolled for carrying
out direct and indirect activities in the inpatient units. The
majority of the nurses were female, currently single, ageing 20
to less than 30 years old. Also, they were holding BSc. N degree
and were working in inpatients units for 1 year up to
three. More than three quarter of them work in rotating shift.
Table 2 shows nurses’ perception of management styles as
distributed by their study hospitals. This table points out that
the highest percentage of total studied subjects were perceived
for consultative styles (57.50%). Also, it was observed that the
highest mean percentage of management style was for consultative
style at El Salama New hospital (64.60%) as compared
to 0.90% for exploitative/authoritative management style. A
statistically significant difference was found in this respect
(v2 = 26.68, p< 0.05).