Absorptive Capacity as an Interaction Variable between Authentic Leadership and Sustainability of Safe Organizational Performance: an Analytical Study

Abstract

The higher education sector in Iraq in general and the University of Qadisiyah in particular are among the sectors that most need to be adapted and competitive, especially in the field of academic performance and the provision of a safe working environment for the human resource, which is one of the most important assets that organizations can use to achieve their goals. The educational leaderships at the university in particular and international and international universities in general should work to take care of authentic leadership practices such as creating a positive organizational environment. In addition, it is necessary to focus on real and sustainable performance, to encourage ethics and authenticity in relationships, and to create and share knowledge in order to achieve sustainable organizational and safe performance at work. The current paper aims to test the interactive role between the Authentic leadership and absorptive capabilities in sustainability of the safe organizational performance of a sample of teaching staff at the University of Qadisiyah, amounting to (240) teaching staff. The research is based on a hypothetical model that reflects the nature of its hypotheses stemming from its main variables, which are the Authentic leadership (self-awareness, relational transparency, Internalized Moral Perspective, Balanced Processing) interacting with the absorptive capabilities of (knowledge acquisition, knowledge absorption, Knowledge Transfer, knowledge exploitation) and the vulnerability of the sustainability of the safe performance depends To increase interest in its dimensions of (safety policy, safety planning, Safety procedures). The questionnaire was used as a main tool for data collection, and a number of statistical methods were used to test the research hypotheses such as mean, standard deviation, simple correlation coefficient, structural equation modelling and regression analysis. The results show the validity of most of the research hypotheses, which resulted in a set of recommendations, the most important of which was the need to pay attention to enhancing the absorptive capabilities of knowledge at the level of Al-Qadisiyah University and its faculty s, and to promote Authentic leadership practices in a way that reflects the sustainability of the safe performance.