Strategic leadership and its impact on the entrepreneurial behavior of employees through the mediating role of strategic alignment: an analytical study of the opinions of a sample of private school managers of the center of the city of Diwaniyah

Abstract

The current study aims to explore strategic leadership and its impact on employees’ entrepreneurial behavior and the mediating role of strategic alignment. The study attempts to provide an integrated theoretical framework for the most important issues raised by writers and researchers regarding their variables, in addition to an analytical framework for the opinions of a sample of principals in private schools in the city of Diwaniyah. The number of schools included in the current study was (187) schools. The sample size was (150) managers.

 The questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting data, and a number of statistical methods were used to analyze the data with the help of the (Smart PLS) program. The study concluded that its hypothesis was correct regarding the relationship of influence between its variables. The study presented a number of recommendations related to its topic, including the need for leaders, represented by private school principals, to adopt a set of behaviors to enhance entrepreneurial behavior by paying attention to strategic alignment