Leadership integrity and its role in promoting organizational embeddedness: A survey of the opinions of a sample of employees in the State Real Estate Department in Najaf

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to identify leadership integrity and its role in promoting organizational embeddedness in the organization. The study is based on the inferential descriptive approach through obtaining a sample from the employees’ opinions of the National Real Estate Department in Najaf Governorate. The topic of leadership integrity is one of the advanced topics as an independent explanatory variable, and organizational embeddedness as a dependent variable. The analysis was carried out by adopting a set of statistical tools, which are Smart PLS and SPSS. The current research has included some conclusions: the most important of which is leadership integrity is based on the morals of virtue where the leadership integrity is distinguishing between right and wrong in one’s leadership role and taking steps to ensure justice and honesty. Furthermore, leadership integrity encourages empowering others and enabling them to pursue their noble goals for themselves and their organizations, which foster organizational embeddedness for employees in the organization. The research presented a set of recommendations based on the concluded results, including stressing the need to develop and benefit from the use of leadership integrity method to promote positive behaviors among employees and achieve an environment characterized by positive responses and an appropriate working climate.