ArticleFrontiers in health services2026
Exploring agile leadership, ambidextrous leadership, organizational agility, and innovation behaviors among nurse managers: an explanatory mixed-methods study.
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Aim: To describe agile leadership, ambidextrous leadership, organizational agility, and innovation behaviors among nurse managers and explore how these practices are experienced in clinical management. Background: Agile leadership, organizational responsiveness, and innovation are increasingly relevant to nursing management. However, these concepts may overlap substantially when measured through same-source self-report, making qualitative contextualization important for understanding how they are experienced in practice. Methods: An exploratory sequential explanatory mixed-methods study was conducted in a tertiary Saudi hospital. Forty-four nurse managers completed measures of agile leadership, ambidextrous leadership, organizational agility, and innovation behaviors. Thirty-two nurse managers then participated in semi-structured interviews analyzed thematically. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively and exploratorily, and qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Greater interpretive weight was given to the qualitative phase. Results: Nurse managers reported moderate agile and ambidextrous leadership and high organizational agility and innovation behaviors. The four measures showed near-unity correlations, limiting construct-specific interpretation. Qualitative analysis generated five themes: agile leadership as flexibility and human-centered responsiveness; ambidextrous leadership as balancing opening and closing behaviors; organizational agility as adaptive unit functioning; innovation as problem-driven practice; and contextual challenges influencing leadership effectiveness. Conclusion: The findings indicate a highly interrelated agile leadership-organizational functioning profile. The primary contribution lies in the qualitative findings, which show how nurse managers described flexibility, delegation, balancing operational and improvement work, problem-driven innovation, and contextual constraints within Saudi clinical management. Larger multisite and multi-source studies are needed to determine whether the measured constructs are empirically distinct.
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