القيادة الخادمة و علاقتها بالتفكير الاستراتيجي لدى مدراء المدارس الحكومية في محافظة كربلاء

The servant leadership and its relation to Strategic Thinking by The among government school principals In a Governorate Karbala

Abstract

The current research deals with servant leadership and strategic thinking, which are among the overlapping variables between educational and psychological topics. A higher mental process that must be recognized and paid attention to, especially among the members of the current research, as it is an important segment in society and mainly represents the process of influencing others and school members in general and constitutes an effective element for the success of the institution and achieving its goals and future aspirations, as well as It contributes to the well-being and progress of society among the countries of the world. Hence, the current research aims to identify:
 Servant leadership among government school principals.
 Strategic thinking of government school principals.
 Significance of differences in servant leadership among school principals according to gender variables (principal – principal) (years of service – type of school)
 Significance of differences in strategic thinking according to the variables (gender (manager – principal) (years of service – type of school).
 The relationship between servant leadership and strategic thinking among government school principals.
 Differences in the correlation between servant leadership and strategic thinking according to the gender variable (principal – principal) (years of service – type of school)..
And in order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher built the servant leadership scale according to the model (Spears, 2010), and the adoption of the strategic thinking scale of (Al-Zubaidi, 2016), and the extraction of (virtual honesty and construction honesty), and the stability was checked for the scale Servant leadership in a re-test method was (0.88), Cranach’s alpha (0.91), strategic thinking (0.85) and alpha (0.89), and then the two tools were applied to the research sample of (175) principals who were chosen by a simple random sample from schools Governmental Secondary School for Barbara Governorate and for the academic year (2021-2020), and the discriminatory power of each tool was extracted to suit it. The validity of the two research tools in the light of indicators of validity and reliability, and the application of two tools to the research sample and then collecting and processing data statistically, all of them in the statistical bag (SPSS) The current research reached the following results:-
1. High school principals have the maid leadership.
2. High school principals have strategic thinking.
3. There are no statistically significant differences in servant leadership according to the variable (sex – service – type of school)
4. There are no statistically significant differences in strategic thinking according to the variable (gender – service – type of school).
5. There is a positive, medium, positive correlation between servant leadership and strategic thinking among government secondary school principals.
6. There are statistically significant differences in the correlation between servant leadership and strategic thinking according to (gender – in favor of females), (years of service – in favor of 10 years and more) and (type of school – in favor of high school).
In light of these results, the researcher made some recommendations and suggestions, including:
 The Directorate of Education should hold a training workshop and seminars to raise awareness of the components of strategic thinking for workers in school administrations at all stages of education in a way that enhances and enriches strategic thinking in achieving the school’s goals.
 Conducting a study dealing with strategic vision as an original variable and including its four dimensions (perception – intuition – foresight – perception ).