The role of strategic leadership in achieving success Strategic
A Thesis
submitted to the Council of the College of Administration and Economics – University of Karbala It is part of the requirements for obtaining an MBA

Provided by the student
Jassim Saadoun Saleh Al-Naji
Supervised by
prof. Dr Mahmoud Fahad Abd Ali

The objective of the present study is to identify the role of strategic leadership through its dimensions (strategic direction, investing and maintaining core competencies, developing human capital, supporting and enhancing organizational culture, emphasizing ethical practices, implementing balanced organizational control) in achieving strategic success through its dimensions. (Growth, survival, adaptation). 

The problem of the current study was summarized through the following questions. What is the level of availability of strategic leadership in the Iraqi Drilling Company – Basra? What is the level of availability of strategic success in the research company? What is the level of influence of strategic leadership in enhancing the strategic success of the researched company? What is the nature of the relationship between strategic leadership and strategic success in the researched company? The study was applied to a group of leaders at the upper and middle levels in the Iraqi Drilling Company – Basra, where the researcher relied on the method of the intentional sample of the views of a group of these leaders, whose number reached (253) managers at various levels, and thus the community is considered the intended sample, and the questionnaire was used to obtain On the answers and the collection of data that will be subject to statistical analysis through the use of statistical programs, Spss, V23, and Amos, V.23, and the great importance that the leadership reflects in its people of a great impact in increasing and raising the level of performance and motivation towards achieving the goals that result from it.

 Achieving success on all levels, especially at the strategic level. The researcher reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which was the results of the statistical description of the strategic leadership variable that the studied individuals had a positive attitude with a high direction of the strategic leadership variable and this indicates the interest of the Iraqi Drilling Company – Basra for this variable due to its importance. Strategic leadership affects the strategic success in the Iraqi Drilling Company – Basra, and this indicates that the study sample company, whenever it is concerned with the dimensions of strategic leadership, will positively enhance its strategic success. On their possession of the will and the ability to take initiative and take decisions in light of modern perceptions, the emphasis on the strategic leaders of the researched company by developing their skills and abilities to make and implement strategic changes, the necessity for the leaders in the researched company to understand that growth inspires vitality and activity in it through the challenges it creates and the returns it provides. 

Key words: strategic leadership – strategic success – Iraqi Drilling Company.