Distributed leadership and its role in enhancing Employee Morale An analytical study in several schools of the Baghdad Directorate of Education\Al-Karkh the Second

Abstract

The research aimed to determine the importance of distributed leadership and its role in enhancing the morale of employees (teachers) in the schools of the Baghdad\Al-Karkh the Second Education Directorate. The research problem, which the researchers noticed, revealed a kind of weakness and lack of clarity in the leadership role followed by the principals of the schools affiliated with the directorate, the subject of the research. This, in turn, negatively affected the morale of the teachers working there. Therefore, the researchers sought to demonstrate the importance of the leadership style followed in the community, the subject of the research, especially (distributed leadership) with its four dimensions (vision, mission and goals, organizational culture, shared responsibilities, leadership practices) to enhance and raise the morale of teachers working in schools.

From here, the importance of the research becomes clear to us through its endeavor to find a set of solutions that would address the problems occurring in the schools under study, as far as the research variables are concerned. To achieve this, the researchers relied on the descriptive analytical approach in completing their research, as they relied on the questionnaire as a main tool in collecting and analyzing data, in addition to adopting the method of direct observation that took place during the visits made by the researchers to the schools. The research community included the administrative leadership (school principals and their assistants) affiliated with the Baghdad\Al-Karkh Second Education Directorate. The method of intentional sampling was relied upon, which included these leaderships, as the researchers distributed (87) questionnaires to the community to be studied, and (79) questionnaires were retrieved, of which (3) were not valid for statistical analysis, so the number of questionnaires became (76), a questionnaire that represented the research community that was studied. The researchers relied on the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS V.23).

The research reached several conclusions, the most important of which is a correlation and a direct influence with statistical significance between distributed leadership in its dimensions. With employee morale, these relationships were positive and directly related to the variable and its dimensions, this indicates that distributed leadership has a major role in enhancing the morale of teachers working in the schools under study.