The impact of virtuous leadership in organizational excellence as perceived by the academic staff at Mutah University

Abstract EN

Organizations today are experiencing the challenges of uncertainty and accelerating change in the work environment, as managers of higher education institutions are obligated to adopt virtuous behavior to produce the desired institutional excellence.

this study aimed to demonstrate the impact of virtuous leadership on institutional excellence, and the level of virtuous leadership elements as well as the existence of institutional excellence aspects at mutah university.

the study considered optimism, forgiveness, trust, compassion, and integrity as the virtuous elements that predict organizational excellence as well it considered the dimensions of organizational excellence represented by leadership, partnership and resources, people management, policy and strategy, process management.

this study was applied to a sample of 384 faculty members at mutah university, to illustrate the effect of virtuous leadership on achieving organizational excellence in a higher education institution in Jordan.the importance of the study stems from the fact that few studies dealt with organizational excellence in institutions of higher education with regard to the concept of virtue.

the study found that there is a statistically significant impact of the virtuous leadership on institutional excellence in general, and the faculty members at mutah university perceive that the virtue is trust, compassion, and integrity among university leaders.