The Impact of Empowering Leadership on the Career Plateau: An Analytical Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Employees in the General Directorate of Education of the First Karkh

Abstract

The current research aims, though, to verify the impact of empowering leadership as an independent variable in the career plateau as a responsive variable, in the General Directorate of Education in Baghdad, Karkh First and all its departments in the city of Baghdad, and trying to come up with a set of recommendations that contribute to strengthening the practice and adoption of variables in the organizations under study. Proceeding from the importance of the research topic for society, and for the organizations surveyed and their members, the reconnaissance-analytical approach was adopted in the completion of this research, the place of application of the General Directorate of Education in Baghdad, Karkh first, while the research sample was represented by (the director general and his assistants, heads of departments, directors of people and units at the level of the directorate and its departments) as a sample Intentionally for the research community represented by the General Directorate of Education in Baghdad, Karkh First and all its departments in the city of Baghdad and in a comprehensive inventory, as the researcher distributed (282) questionnaires for the research sample, and then collected data from (275) respondents from the surveyed community by adopting the questionnaire that included (48) paragraphs, and supplemented it with interviews. Personal and field observations as tools to help strengthen it. The research adopted the program (Amos V.23, SPSS V.28) with the adoption of descriptive and inferential statistics methods (normal distribution test, confirmatory factor analysis, building models of variables, arithmetic mean, percentages, standard deviation, relative importance, coefficient of variation, correlation coefficient Pearson, simple regression coefficient, path analysis, Sobel test, Aroian test, and Godman test) to test his hypotheses. The most prominent results of the research were represented in the presence of a clear negative impact of the empowering leadership on the career plateau by granting the employees independence from bureaucratic restrictions.