Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government

Abstract

The Purpose of current research to test the effect of Strategic Leadership Patterns as an
independent variable in the innovation performance as a dependent variable, in the Baghdad
Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate of the Ministry of Interior, and then try to
come up with a set of recommendations that contribute to enhancing the innovation
performance of the researched organization. And based on the importance of the research
topic in the researched organization, and the importance of the research organization to
society, a descriptive-analytical approach was adopted in its achievement, and the research
was applied in the Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Directorate in Baghdad, and the
research targeted an intentional quota sample of leaders and military ranks, and data were
collected from (145) respondents representing a community. The research is exclusively and
comprehensive, represented by (director of the directorate, assistant director of the directorate,
directors of departments, assistants of department directors, divisional directors, unit
officials), by adopting the questionnaire that included (45) paragraphs, and using personal
interviews and field observations as tools to help in collecting them. The research adopted the
program (Amos V.25, Spss V.26) with the adoption of descriptive statistical methods
(linearity test, normal distribution test, confirmatory factor analysis, building variables
models, arithmetic mean, percentages, standard deviation, relative importance, coefficient of
variation, And the correlation coefficient (Pearson coefficient, and the simple and multiple
regression coefficients) to test its hypotheses, and the research concluded the most prominent
result represented in the validity of its hypotheses, the existence of a positive positive effect of
strategic leadership patterns on innovation performance, as well as the availability of the two
variables, practice, interest, and adoption.