Strategic Leadership and Its Role in Promoting Constructive Conflict: An Exploratory Study of a Sample of Administrative Leaders Working in The Petroleum Products Distribution Company/Nineveh Branch

Abstract

The research aims to explain the role of strategic leadership in achieving constructive conflict between individual employees. The research seeks to address a fundamental problem, which is how to enhance and develop individuals’ awareness, cohesion of the administrative and organizational process, effective participation, and problem solving among individuals within the petroleum products distribution company by activating the role of (focusing on employees, Process efficiency, business development, organizational creativity) and then achieving constructive conflict between the working individuals in a way that serves the interests of the organization and its working individuals. The research took the Petroleum Products Distribution Company/Western Authority as its field, while the community included the formations of the Petroleum Products Distribution Company/branch. Nineveh, from which a sample was taken from the 55 individuals working in it, and using a number of statistical tests in the statistical programming SPSS V 26, and to reach accurate observations of the opinions of the research sample, a questionnaire was designed by resorting to previous studies after their safety was confirmed in accordance with the variables of the study environment, by presenting it to a number of arbitrators, the research reached a number of basic conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a significant correlation with strategic leadership in constructive conflict. This explains why the Petroleum Products Distribution Company resorted to developing leadership capabilities, represented by focusing on employees and improving Process efficiency and continuous business development can thus stimulate constructive conflict within the organization under study.

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