The Impact of Applying Sustainable Leadership Principles on Achieving the Characteristics of a Smart Organisation: A Field Study

Abstract

The importance of sustainability and environmental protection are among the most important pillars of contemporary business organisations that are described as intelligent. We attribute the first responsibility for this to the organisation’s leadership because it is the one that can support sustainability issues and considers them as part of its work ethics. Therefore, the objective of our study is to identify the most important principles of sustainable leadership that can contribute to achieving the characteristics of a smart organisation. Especially in Algerian public hospitals, because they are the most important service institutions in the country. In addition, the intelligence of business organisations does not mean the acceleration in acquiring and developing information and communication technology. However, it has also included environmental, social, and economic standards. In order to achieve the objective of the study, we reviewed the most important intellectual literature that dealt with the two variables (sustainable leadership and intelligent organisation), in addition to designing a questionnaire to collect information divided into three main axes. It was distributed to a sample of employees in public hospitals in Djelfa (Algeria. We used statistical programs (SPSS, smart pls) to process the data from the questionnaire. The tests showed several important results, including that the principle of conservation and social justice has an important impact on achieving the characteristics of smart organisations in public hospitals in Djelfa. This indicates that the leadership of hospitals attaches great importance to these two principles. It seeks to conserve the resources used through prudent use. It also considers that social justice among members of society is one of its priorities, especially since we know that these hospitals are public and accessible, aimed at all citizens without exception. Several important recommendations, among them the need to support the efforts of conservation and social justice for hospitals to ensure the continuation of adopting the characteristics of smart organisations. They should also reconsider the embodiment of the principles of sustainable leadership by working to deepen sustainability and consolidate it among its leaders and then exporting their ideas inside and outside the organisation.