The interactive role of strategic agility in the relationship between authentic leadership and sustainable performance
an analytical study of the opinions of a sample of workers in
the General Company for Grain Trade
Submitted By
Hussein Ismail Hussein Al Dhabhawi
Supervised by
Assist. Prof. Dr. Sahar Abbas Hussein Al Zayadi

Abstract
The study aimed to test the relationship of the influence of authentic leadership as an independent variable in sustainable performance as a responsive variable, through the modifier variable represented by strategic agility. In the General Company for Grain Trading, and in order to achieve this, the study relied on four dimensions of authentic leadership represented by (self awareness, internal ethical perspective, relationship transparency, balanced treatment) according to (Walumbwa., 2008) and testing its impact on sustainable performance in its dimensions (economic performance, Social performance, environmental performance) based on (PAULRAJ., 2011) as well as testing the interactive role (modifier) of strategic agility with its dimensions (strategic sensitivity, unity of command, resource flow) according to (Doz & Kosonet, 2008), and it is important to study public organizations And the role that these organizations have in society, as the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach in completing this thesis, by collecting data from workers in departments, divisions and units, whose number reached (269) respondents, based on a questionnaire that included (37) items prepared according to standards ready for studies Foreign and Arab, supported by personal interviews and field experience as auxiliary tools in its collection.
The study started from a pure problem represented by the main question: What is the role of authentic leadership in sustainable organizational performance in the General Company for Grain Trade? Is strategic agility a moderating role for this relationship? The researcher relied on the appropriate statistical analysis tools available in the SPSS and Amos programs to test the main study hypotheses.
The study came out with a number of conclusions, the most important of which is the intensification of the influence of authentic leadership on sustainable performance, reinforced by the level of the impact of strategic agility as a (directive) modified variable of the relationship between the two variables. The study recommended the need to strengthen the original leadership and strategic agility in the company under study.
Key Words: Authentic leadership, strategic agility, sustainable performance.