Rekurd S. Maghdid1, Badariah Haji Din2 and Aso K. Omer3
1,3Department of Administration and Accounting, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, Koya, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
2School of Government, College of Law, Government and International Studies,
Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Malaysia
Email: [email protected] – [email protected]
DOI: 10.23918/ICABEP2022p23
Abstract
Different leadership styles have had significant influence on the development of the organizations, especially on the crisis management as it is an important process to prevent disasters and unexpected risks. To investigate the impact of leadership styles in the crisis period many studies have been conducted in both private and public sectors. Meanwhile, few research has been done to investigate effect of servant leadership style on crisis management in general, and especially in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s public institutions. Therefore, employing Crisis Management Theory, this study has evaluated the effectiveness of the servant leadership style and the crisis management in the KRI public sector. To obtain the research objective and test the hypothesis, quantitative research design, cross-sectional survey method was adopted. For the purpose of this study, a total of 700 questionnaires were distributed to the public institutions of the KRI, a total of 297 completed and valid questionnaires were returned. Accordingly, the collected data was analyzed by SmartPLS 3.3.3 software program. The findings of this study approved the hypothesized effect of servant leadership style in the crisis period. That is, direct relationship between servant leadership and crisis management was found. All in all, this study has ended with conclusions explaining theoretical and practical contributions and suggestions.
Keywords: Crisis, crisis management, leadership, servant leadership style, kri and public sector.
ICABEP2022
4th International Conference on Accounting, Business, Economics and Politics
Organized by
Tishk International University, College of Administration and Economics, Salahaddin University-Erbil, and
University of Szczecin, Poland.
