The Entrepreneurial Team Characteristics andTheir Impact onCohesion byMediating Organizational Identity: An Analytical Study ofOpinions ofaSample ofSenior Administrative Leaders inUniversities andPrivate Colleges Operating inThe Governorates ofCentral andSouthern Iraq

Abstract

The current study aims to reveal the role of leadership characteristics (team knowledge, team positions, team diversity) in team cohesion (individual attractiveness to social group, individual attractiveness to group-task, group-task integration, group-social integration) by mediating organizational identity, It identified the research problem with a number of intellectual and applied questions aimed at identifying the intellectual frameworks of their variables, and then diagnosing the level of interest in them on the ground, in addition to the actual measures taken by the administrative leaderships in universities and civil colleges operating in central and southern Iraq to improve the level of team cohesion. Three main hypotheses were developed, including a number of sub-hypotheses to test the level of impact between research variables, and the researcher used the cognitive interaction and descriptive analytical approaches to visualize, analyze, and interpret research information.

The study was applied to the administrative leaderships in universities and civil colleges operating in central and southern Iraq, and the research community reached 587 leaders. The research used special statistical packages in the program (SPSS.V.27) and the program (Amos.V.26), results of natural distribution were extracted, the modeling of the structural equation, the stability factor, the arithmetic means, and the standard deviations. Relative importance, correlation matrix, and regression factor.

The study reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is that the studied sample is keen on building the professional background of faculty board members through developing their expertise and skills in a way that complements each other. Management leaders at studied colleges and universities recognize the importance of diversity in their teams as they address problems in the workplace by building as much fundamental ideas as possible that will achieve the best results that achieve their goals over the long term.  The study made a number of recommendations, which highlighted the need to institutionalize adaptation capacity and create a stable regulatory environment conducive to sustained change compatible with the Organization.