The Role of Conscious Leadership in Enhancing Job Engagement: An Analytical Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Employees at Al-Maaref Al-Ahliyya University
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Conscious Leadership, Job Engagement, Al-Maaref National UniversityAbstract
The research aims to identify the role of conscious leadership in enhancing job engagement, and conscious leadership consists of three dimensions (self-awareness, awareness and feeling of others, and situational awareness) while job engagement consists of three dimensions (cognitive, emotional, and physical) while the researcher used the descriptive-analytical method, and the research sample consisted of (45) An individual of the employees of Al-Maaref Al-Ahlia University, and the researcher used thequestionnaire as a tool to collect and analyze the data, and the results were extracted byrelying on the statistical program (SPSS), and the research reached the most important results, which are the existence of two correlations and influence between conscious leadership and job engagement.
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