Effect of adopting Proactive Work Behaviors on achieving Strategic Entrepreneurship

An exploratory study of the opinions of a sample of directors of the Directorate of Civil Status, Passports and Residence

Master’s thesis submitted to the Board of the College of Administration and Economics. It is part of the requirements for obtaining a higher diploma equivalent to a master’s degree in security strategic planning

By

Hussein Bashir Al-Fatlawi

Supervised by

Assistant Professor Dr.

Ahmed Abdullah Al-Shammari

Abstract

     The current study aims to test the role of adopting proactive work behaviors as an independent variable through its dimensions (take responsibility, employee voice, individual creativity and preventing the problem) in achieving Strategic Entrepreneurship as a dependent variable with its dimensions (acceptance of risk, flexibility, vision and growth). As the departments of the Directorate of Civil Status, Passports and Residence were chosen to implement this study as it has direct contact with the Iraqi society through the provision of services that organize their social and security work, Through a sample of (220) respondents, intentionally, represented by (directors, heads of departments, directors of divisions, and unit officials in the directorate).

     The problem of the study was represented in the intellectual questions that describe a reality in which (proactive work behaviors in achieving Strategic Entrepreneurship) are integrated, the most prominent of which was “Does adopting proactive work behaviors affect the achievement of Strategic Entrepreneurship” in the Directorate of the study community, Its field importance was evident in that it was applied in the government security sector, which performs service activities, which is one of the important sectors because of its impact on the security and social aspects of the country, as well as its impact on the rest of the other aspects of Iraqi society.

     A set of statistical methods were used, the most important of which is the Pearson correlation coefficient to test the correlation hypothesis by using the statistical program (SPSS V.25) and structural equation modeling to test the direct effect by using the statistical program (Amos V.20).

     The study reached a set of conclusions, the most prominent of which is that the Directorate of Civil Status, Passports and Residence can achieve Strategic Entrepreneurship by adopting proactive work behaviors in general, which calls for emphasizing the adoption of these dimensions to contribute to raising the level of leadership of the Directorate, which leads to raising the degree of harmony among the sample members and achieving Integrative understanding to reach individual creativity that leads the employee to accept risk and complete tasks with flexibility and clarity of vision.

     The current study came out with a set of recommendations, the most important of which is the need for the Directorate of the study community to work diligently to increase the impact of these behaviors in an encouraging work climate that contributes to achieving the Strategic Entrepreneurship of the Directorate and the study community to ensure continuous improvement of its performance by employing its human and technological resources as it is highly relevant to the study variables.

Keywords: Proactive Work Behaviors, Strategic Entrepreneurship, Directorate of Civil Status, Passports and Residence.