The effect of strategic leadership on organizational identification: A research on El-Mustansiriya University employees

The aim of this research is to reveal whether strategic leadership has an effect on organizational identification and its sub-dimensions. It has been revealed in many studies that leadership and leadership styles affect the performance of employees, and in this research, to determine the strategic leadership perceptions of university employees and to reveal how this perception affects their organizational identification is considered as important. The universe of the research consists of academic and administrative staff working at Al-Mustansıriyye University in Iraq. A total of 532 samples has been reached from 6486 employees who made up the universe. Questionnaire technique, one of the quantitative research methods, has been used as a data collection method in the research. The questionnaire form has been formed from demographic information, strategic leadership and organizational identification scales. After the data were collected, exploratory factor analysis, t test, Anova, correlation and regression analyzes were performed. As a result of the research, it has been seen that there is a difference between the age of demographic variables and the strategic leadership perceptions of the employees, and there are significant differences between the working time of the employees in the institution and the levels of strategic leadership and organizational identification. As a result of the correlation analysis, it has been determined that there are significant and positive relations between the variables. As a result of the simple regression analysis, it has been determined that strategic leadership has a statistically significant and positive effect on organizational identification, perceived external prestige of the organization and cognitive, behavioral and emotional identification dimensions, which are sub-dimensions of organizational identification. Finally, as a result of the multiple regression analysis, it has been determined that the dimensions of political practices and communication skills, which are sub-dimensions of strategic leadership, have statistically significant and positive effects on organizational identification.