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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.77, # 2, 2020, pp. 4-39

THE IMPACT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON
STRATEGIC AGILITY AN EMPIRICAL STUDY AT THE
AQABA SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE AUTHORITY

Dr. Maddallah basheer aboud Al – nwaiqah, Directorate of general security, Jordan

Received October 23; accepted December 2020; published online 28 December 2020

ABSTRACT:
This study aimed to know the impact of transformational leadership on strategic agility,
an applied study at the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, and to achieve the
goal of the study, the study tool - the questionnaire - was developed and distributed to a
sample of (246) respondents, and the statistical package for social sciences was used (
SPSS) to analyze data, and the study reached results, the most important of which are:
that the dimensions of transformational leadership and strategic agility are available to a
high degree in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, and the presence of an
impact of transformational leadership on strategic agility, and that the dimensions of
transformational leadership explain an amount of (62.3%) of the variance in Strategic
agility in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority. The study concluded with a set
of recommendations, the most important of which were: Promoting the trend towards
employing the transformational leadership dimensions to increase the leaders' awareness
and interest in providing individual intellectual and legal stimulation due to its positive
impact on the outcomes of the administrative process with the aim of optimizing it in
enhancing strategic agility in its dimensions and making it part of the work culture and
definition. With those dimensions and clarification of its concept for workers in the
Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Strategic Agility, Aqaba Special Economic
Zone Authority, Individual Intellectual, Legal Stimulation.
Jel classification: F21, O18, O25, R23, R58

INTRODUCTION:

The current era is witnessing many rapid developments and successive changes as a
result of the knowledge explosion and the information revolution. Making organizations
face many challenges and difficulties in how to cope with them and the way to adapt to
them, as it forced organizations to find modern and creative ways of leadership, to
discard traditional methods of finding creative people and to provide the appropriate
means that help to innovate new methods and quick administrative solutions.
With the increasing urgency of leaders rather than managers by institutions, many
have searched for different styles of leadership, and transformational leadership is

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