Academic environment of nursing faculty staff and their potential leadership and creativity abilities

Aim To study the relationship between academic environment of nursing faculty staff regarding emotional abuse and leadership environment and their potential leadership and creativity abilities. Background Any university with its faculties has certain responsibilities for their community welfare, and their staff ride the train of its development with their leadership and creativity abilities. Hence, the positively contribution of academic environment to that is a needed issue and must expectation. Methods Using a correlational and descriptive design, all staff working at faculty of nursing were assessed for their potential leadership and creativity abilities, and their academic environment using four tools/instruments. Results The findings indicated that emotional abuse degree was around moderate level and leadership environment was too low level to leadership development. Most of faculty staff had high potential leadership ability, whereas they had an average level of creativity ability. Conclusion and implications Academic environment is characterized by emotional abuse and discouraging leadership development, which had no significant correlation with creativity ability but push faculty staff having potential leadership ability. So, measures should be taken towards improving leadership environment attributes, managing the incidents of emotional abusive environment and encouraging staff to face and report about the emotional abuse behaviors.