Abstract:
This study aimed to know the role of leadership skills in reducing the reasons for
resistance to organizational change in the economic institution, and for that, a field
study was carried out in the Cosider Foundation to determine the nature of the
relationship between leadership skills as an independent variable, and the reasons for
resistance to organizational change as a dependent variable in the presence of
strategies to reduce resistance Change as a mediating variable, where a questionnaire
consisting of 80 statements was developed to collect information and data and
distributed to 150 employees, so that 111 valid questionnaires were retrieved for
analysis, and the Spss, v.25 and Amos, v.24 programs were used in data analysis. The
study concluded a number of results, the most important of which are:
The level of commitment of Cosider Foundation officials to leadership skills was
high, as technical skills came in the first place, followed by human skills in the second
place, and then intellectual skills in the third place.
There is a medium level of resistance of employees in the Cosider Foundation to
change, and the work groups had the largest share in feeding this resistance.
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (0.05
) between leadership skills and strategies to reduce resistance to change in the
Cosider Foundation.
Cosider Foundation uses the communication strategy and the participation strategy
as one of the most important strategies to reduce employee resistance to change.
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (0.05)
between leadership skills and the reasons for resistance to organizational change in
Cosider Foundation.
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (0.05)
between leadership skills and strategies to reduce resistance to change in Cosider
Foundation.
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance ( 0.05)
between strategies to reduce resistance to change and the causes of resistance to
organizational change in Cosider Foundation.
There is a statistically significant relationship at the level of significance ( 0.05)
between leadership skills and the causes of resistance to organizational change in the
Cosider Foundation, with the presence of strategies to reduce resistance to change as a
mediating variable in this relationship. This mediation is partial.