Vol. 16, Issue 1, Jul-Dec 2023

Page: 22-33

CREATIVE LEADERSHIP AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE DISTINGUISHED BEHAVIOR OF DEPARTMENT MANAGERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BAGHDAD

Assit. Lecturer Khadija Wajid Abboud Muhur Al-Furaiji

Received Date: 2019-07-02

Accepted Date: 2019-08-06

Published Date: 2019-08-15

The current research seeks to identify creative leadership and its relation to the behavior of the directors of the distinguished departments at the University of Baghdad. In order to achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher followed the descriptive approach, where the researcher identified the research community from all the directors of departments at the University of Baghdad and took the researcher from the representative sample of the community of (100) Director and Director of scientific and humanitarian sections. The researcher adopted the criteria of creative leadership (Abdullah, 2011) and the measure of excellence in behavior (Hassan, 2009). The researcher derived the psychometric characteristics of the research tools such as the validity of the arbitrators, the stability, and the psychometric properties of the current research tools. The tools are applied to the research sample. The researcher reached the following results: 1. There is a high level of creative leadership among department managers at the University of Baghdad 2. There are differences in the creative leadership of department managers at the University of Baghdad according to gender and in favor of (males) 3. There is a high level of behavior distinguished departmental managers at the University of Baghdad 4. There are differences in behavior distinguished departmental managers at the University of Baghdad according to gender and in favor of (males) 5. There is a statistically significant relationship between the creative leadership and the outstanding behavior of department managers at the University of Baghdad.

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