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Maddallah basheer aboud Al: The Impact of Transformatıonal Leadershıp on Strategıc Agılıty an Empırıcal
                                            Study at The Aqaba Specıal Economıc Zone Authorıty



                    4- Analysis  of  variance  to  test  the  differences  for  demographic  variables  in  the
                    respondents' perceptions of the dependent variable.
                    5- Variance Inflation Factor test and Tolerance test to ensure that there is no high
                    correlation (Multicollinearity) between the independent variables.
                    6- Skewness test to ensure that the data follow normal distributions.
                    7- Cronbach's Alpha to measure the internal  consistency of the paragraphs of the
                    questionnaire.
                    PREVIOUS STUDIES:

                    Many  Arab  and  foreign  studies  have  been  conducted  that  are  related  to
                    transformational  leadership  and  strategic  agility,  and  these  topics  have  been
                    addressed  from  different  approaches.  Aqaba  Special  Economic  Zone  Authority.
                    Therefore,  this  study  tried  to  employ  what  was  mentioned  in  previous  studies  as
                    much as possible, and among these studies the following:

                    Arabic Studies: (Al-Balooshi, et al., 2019) conducted a study aimed at identifying
                    the  degree  to  which  managers  practice  transformational  leadership,  and  its
                    relationship to organizational health, in basic education schools in the Sultanate of
                    Oman. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers used the descriptive
                    and analytical approach through the use of two tools, the first: a transformational
                    leadership  questionnaire  and  consisted  of  (33)  items  to  measure  the  degree  of
                    managers ’practice of transformational leadership in basic education schools, and the
                    second  scale  (OHI-E),  consisting  of  (37  items)  to  measure  the  level  of  health.
                    Organizational studies in basic education schools in the Sultanate of Oman from the
                    teachers' point of view, and the two study tools were distributed among a randomly
                    selected sample from the study population, the size of which reached (504) teachers,
                    and  after  analyzing  the  data,  the  results  of  the  study  indicated  that  the  degree  of
                    managers ’practice of transformational leadership in basic education schools In the
                    Sultanate of Oman from the point of view of their teachers is large, and that the level
                    of organizational health in basic education schools in the Sultanate of Oman from
                    the point of view of their teachers in their schools is high, and that there is a positive
                    statistically  significant  positive  correlation  between  the  average  estimates  of  the
                    study sample of the degree of managers ’practice of transformational leadership, and
                    the average of their estimates of the level Organizational health in their schools.

                    Each of (Al-Shukirat  and Al-Jazi, 2019) conducted a study aimed at uncovering the
                    degree  of  practice  of  government  school  principals  in  Ma'an  Governorate  of
                    transformational  leadership  and  its  relationship  to  the  level  of  organizational
                    confidence of teachers. In order to achieve the aim of the study, the researchers used
                    the  descriptive  approach,  and  the  tool  consisted  in  a  questionnaire  applied  to  a

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