Innovative leadership and its impact on the sustainability of human resources: an analytical study of the opinions of a sample of employees at the Northern Technical University and its formations

Abstract

Leaders in the educational system depend on innovation as a vital input in influencing human resources and their sustainability in a way that enables them to keep pace with changes and developments in the workplace. Therefore, the current research aims to reveal the impact of innovative leadership in terms of its dimensions (administrative field, technical field, conceptual field) in resource sustainability. Humanity and its dimensions (employee satisfaction, increased participation, intense commitment), as the researchers relied on the questionnaire form as the main tool in collecting relevant data, and using the descriptive analytical method, (75) questionnaires were distributed to a random sample of workers at the Northern Technical University and its formations in Nineveh Governorate, from which (60) questionnaires were retrieved, suitable for analysis in the statistical software package (SPSS V.26). In light of the results, a number of conclusions were presented, the most important of which is the possibility of adopting innovative leadership and its dimensions in the process of positive impact on human resources and their sustainability. This is due to the presence of a positive and significant effect of the variable. The independent variable depends on the macro and micro levels, and many recommendations were presented, including the need to move towards improving the reality of the dimensions of innovative leadership (administrative, technical, conceptual) and directing them towards the sustainability of human resources at the university under investigation.