The effect of enlightened leadership behaviors on sustainable development / a prospective study in the General Company for Food Products – Baghdad

Abstract

The current research seeks to identify the behaviors of enlightened leadership represented by its dimensions (the developer, the role model, the servant, the changer, the communicator, the visionary) as an independent variable and to demonstrate its impact on sustainable development represented by its dimensions (economic, environmental, social) as a dependent variable, as the research problem was a question  (Does enlightened leadership behavior have a role in promoting sustainable development ?) , A hypothetical scheme was built that defines the nature of the relationship and the influence between the variables. Two main hypotheses were formulated, from which sub-hypotheses were derived.

  In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the descriptive analytical approach was used in the General Company for Food Products, one of the companies affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Minerals, and to survey the opinions of the middle administrative leaders as a research community, who numbered (121), and the intentional sampling method was used program (spss .(

The research reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a significant correlation and influence between the research variables and their dimensions. Also, the research variables (enlightened leadership and sustainable development) are in dire need of more research to bridge the knowledge gap, for the purpose of promoting development sustainability.