Wise Leadership And Its Role In Mitigating Workplace Bullying Behaviors: An Exploratory Study Perspectives Of A Sample Of Administrative Leaders At The University of Mosul

This descriptive survey examined the moderating effect of wise leadership on workplace bullying in a sample of administrative heads at the University of Mosul. To fill a notable gap in the literature concerning how wise leadership influences follower behavior, we conceptualize wise leadership in terms of four dimensions: Intellectual Shrewdness, Spurring Action, Moral Conduct and Virtuous Humility. Predictive links between these leadership attributes and workplace bullying were examined using structural equation modelling. The paradoxical conclusion to the study (that now calls into question the premise of the study) is... The three factors, Moral Conduct, Intellectual Shrewdness and Virtuous Humility, showed significant positive relations with reported bullying, especially Moral Conduct, which had the strongest predictive power. Spurring Action has not reported to be related to any of these factors. Together, these leadership qualities account for 44% of the variance in bullying. The findings indicate that the relationship between wise leadership and bullying behavior is surprisingly more complicated than initially assumed and that these virtues do not lead to less bullying; thus, future research should address this paradoxical finding.