Distributive leadership practice based mainly on engaging experiences, skills and knowledge of those who are expert in
different functional levels, thus, encouraging professionals to utilize their acquired knowledge and skills to develop new
ways of working creatively. Aim: The current study aimed to determine the level of distributive leadership practice and
managerial knowledge sharing from the nurse managers’ perspective and whether its relations to innovative work
behavior of the nurses. Design: Descriptive, correlational research design was used. Setting: All inpatient units (39
units) in Benha Hospital, Qalubia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: All the nurse managers (n=63) and a convenience
sample of the nurses working at the selected inpatient units at the hospital (no=172). Tools: 3 tools used for data
collection: Distributive leadership practices Questionnaire, Managerial Knowledge Sharing Questionnaire, and
Innovative Work Behavior Inventory