The Role of Soft Leadership Skills in Reducing Strategic Drifts An Analytical Study in Iraqi Industrial Sector

Abstract

The current research aims to test the role of soft leadership skills in reducing strategic deviations. As well as diagnosing the levels of soft leadership skills and strategic deviations, and determining the degree of interest in developing soft leadership skills. For this reason, the research adopted the descriptive-analytical method in the process of data acquisition and analysis. The research chose a random sample of administrative and technical staff in the industrial sector in Iraq, which amounted to 280, 164 questionnaires were distributed. The industrial sector represented Iraq as a field for the applied aspect of research. The research adopted the statistical program Smart Pls to test its hypotheses, as well as to ensure that the SEM structural equations match the research model. The results showed that soft leadership skills have a positive effect in reducing strategic deviations.  It was also clear that there is a negative impact of soft leadership skills on strategic deviations.  And that the interest in developing the dimensions of soft leadership skills among workers and leaders would be a key factor in limiting strategic deviations, both at the level of the laboratory and the workers. Thus, getting rid of the bad cases and behaviors accompanying these deviations, which have negative effects on the workers psychologically and healthily, and reduce their job performance.