القيادة الخادمة وعلاقتها بالتفكير الاستراتيجي لدى مدراء المدارس الحكومية في محافظة كربلاء

Abstract EN

The current research aims to identify: 1- Servant leadership of government school principals.

2- The strategic thinking of government school principals.

3- The relationship between servant leadership and strategic thinking among government school principals.

4- The differences in the correlation between servant leadership and strategic thinking according to the variables (gender of the principal - years of experience - type of school).

The researcher used the descriptive correlative approach to identify servant leadership and strategic thinking and the type of relationship between them, and the research tool was: ► The servant leadership scale: by looking at previous studies that dealt with the servant leadership variable, as the researcher adopted this concept based on the model (Spears, 2010) and according to it, she built the servant leadership scale consisting of (31) items distributed on ten dimensions, and depending On the scientific steps in building psychological scales.

► Strategic Thinking Scale: By reviewing previous studies that dealt with strategic thinking, the researcher adopted the (Al-Zubaidi 2016) scale based on the (Bonn, 2005) model to suit the Iraqi environment, and it consisted of (31) items in its final form and distributed over three areas.

Research sample: The research sample amounted to (175) principals from among the principals of government schools in Karbala governorate.

research results: After collecting the data and processing it statistically, the research reached the following results: 1- Principals of public schools have servant leadership.

2- The principals of public schools have medium degrees of strategic thinking.

3- There is a positive and moderate correlation.

4- There are statistically significant differences in the correlation according to (gender and in favor of females - years of experience and in favor of (10 years or more - and type of school and in favor of secondary school principals).

Recommendations: The researcher recommends holding training workshops and seminars to raise awareness of the components of strategic thinking for all school administrations.

Suggestions: Conducting studies similar to the current study on different samples such as heads of departments and deans in universities.