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Abstract
This research seeks to determine the impact of enlightened leadership on employee psychological safety. To achieve this, five dimensions of enlightened leadership were adopted (role model, communicator, visionary, servant, and developer). Psychological safety was expressed as a dependent variable through its dimensions (job satisfaction, leadership, organizational affiliation, performance, risk tolerance, and support). The research problem stemmed from the reality of the Karbala Municipality Directorate, which has not achieved the desired level of service provision to its beneficiaries. The Karbala Municipality Directorate's management is committed to making the workplace a more secure place for workers, but in order to compete at the national and regional levels, they came up with a hypothetical plan based on their best guesses about the variables' relationships and the potential outcomes. Two primary theories form the basis of this. There is a strong relationship between enlightened leadership and psychological safety, according to the first, which is concerned with the link. The substance of the second hypothesis is that (enlightened leadership has a substantial impact on psychological safety), and it is concerned with the degree of influence between the two variables. It was in the Karbala Municipality Directorate (central) that the study was carried out. Specifically, a questionnaire was developed to gather the data needed for the field component. The study sample consisted of fifty persons drawn from the workforce of the investigated directorate. Standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient, weighted arithmetic mean, Cronbach's alpha, and simple regression were some of the measuring techniques utilized in the practical component. The statistical program SPSS V. 26 was used for the Simple Regression Analysis.
The research reached a set of results, the most important of which is (there is a statistically significant correlation between enlightened leadership and psychological safety). Based on these results, the researcher presented a set of recommendations, most notably the necessity for the Karbala Municipality Directorate to increase its focus and adherence to the enlightened leadership approach among its employees in order to achieve its planned goals. This should be achieved by increasing attention to the psychological safety of its employees, with the aim of stimulating their talents and intellectual capabilities, enabling them to develop appropriate solutions to work-related problems that may hinder the completion of their duties.