Vol: 15, Issue: 2 2025

Page: 76-101

The Impact of Servant Leadership on Reducing Job Burnout: An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of Employees at the Mosul Institute / Northern Technical University

Alaa Abdullah Mustafa, Ali Mahmoud Ali

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http://doi.org/10.37648/ijtbm.v15i02.005

The research aims to shed light on the impact of servant leadership on reducing job burnout by applying the study to a sample of employees at the Mosul Institute, affiliated with the Northern Technical University. The descriptive-analytical approach was employed to clarify the studied phenomenon by examining a population consisting of all 436 employees at the Mosul Institute. A purposive sample of 385 employees was selected. The questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting primary data, which were analyzed using the SPSS software to derive the results.

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