Ethical Leadership and Its Impact on Sustainable Performance – An Exploratory study of the Opinions of Employees at Al-Mustaqbal University

Abstract

The research aimed to reveal the nature of the role that ethical leadership can play in achieving sustainable performance. The importance of the research was that it was applied in one of the most important service sectors in Iraq in general, which is the higher education sector, as well as to address a realistic problem represented in the investigation of the research sample organisations About achieving the highest levels of sustainable performance, as the research came to fill a knowledge gap represented by the scarcity of Arab or foreign studies to the knowledge of the researcher, which dealt with the relationship between research variables in one hypothetical model. The gradient was distributed to the university’s employees, who numbered (110) individuals. (86) audited and measurable questionnaires were retrieved. The descriptive analytical method was used in analysing the data based on the statistical analysis program spss v.26 and SmartPLS. The researchers also used a set of statistical measures in order to analyse the data and the reach results. The research has reached a set of results, most notably the existence of an Impact and connection relationship between ethical leadership and sustainable performance. The results indicate that paying attention to the development of ethical leadership capabilities can achieve sustainable performance in government and private institutions. Additionally, the research sample college seeks to benefit from ethical leadership behaviours to achieve sustainable performance, and its top leaders are fully aware of the necessity of following the ethical leadership approach in managing the college to reach high levels of sustainable performance.