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REFLECTION OF LEAN LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORS IN ENHANCING THE STRATEGIC BALANCE OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

Assistant Prof . Hussein Waleed Hussein, Prof. Dr. Ghani Dahham Tanai Al-Zubaydi

Volume: 10 Issue: 2 2020

Abstract:

The main purpose of this research is to identify the importance of the role played by lean leadership behaviors in enhancing the strategic balance of business organizations, within the framework of the contemporary dynamic environment that is characterized by a high degree of volatility and instability, which requires a high flexibility in dealing with it in order to maintain the special competitive position The organization for the longest possible period, and a problem has pointed to the low degree of awareness among the researched organizations of the importance of employing the behavior of their lean leaders in enhancing their strategic balance, so the importance of research emerges in providing a set of treatments for this problem, and in order to achieve a goal The research has adopted the descriptive analytical approach in its applied aspect, as the questionnaire was used to collect data, which was prepared based on a number of ready-made measures. As for the research sample, it was damaged by senior leaders in (24) Iraqi private college, as the sample size reached (227) individuals . The researcher adopted the ready-made statistical program (SPSS-V21) in entering and processing data, which produced a number of results that confirmed the existence of correlation and impact relations between the researched variables, and then the two main hypotheses from which the research was launched were accepted. The field of lean leadership behaviors and trying to transfer their ideas to Iraqi organizations, especially in the field of strategic balance.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i02.041

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