Empowering Leadership and Its Impact on Sustainable Performance Mediated by Intellectual Capital

Analytical research in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers

Abstract

The current research aims to find the relationship of influence between empowering leadership and its dimensions in sustainable performance mediated by intellectual capital. The research focused on studying the variables (empowering leadership) with its dimensions (delegation of authority and responsibility, self-decision making, knowledge sharing, skills development, training on innovative performance) and its impact on the dependent variable (sustainable performance) with its dimensions (environmental performance, economic performance, social performance) mediated by the variable (intellectual capital) with its dimensions (structural capital, human capital, relational capital). To build a cognitive framework aimed at analyzing the relationship between the above variables, as well as exploring the nature of the relationship and influence between them and demonstrating the impact of empowering leadership in enhancing intellectual capital and improving sustainable performance. The research sample amounted to (83) directors at the level of Secretary-General and his deputy, and advisors, in addition to general managers and their assistants and department managers. The main question of the research was: How does empowering leadership affect sustainable performance mediated by intellectual capital in the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers? The research relied on three hypotheses to explore the relationship of influence between the main research variables and its sub-dimensions. It also used the statistical program (28) SPSS and a set of statistical methods including the arithmetic mean, standard deviation, relative importance, and coefficient of variation.

The research reached the most important result, which is the impact of empowering leadership on sustainable performance through the mediating role of intellectual capital. The researchers suggest that other researchers address the concept of comprehensive leadership with sustainable performance and make a comparison between the patterns.