The Role Of Wise Leadership In Managing Strategic Ignorance In The Public Sector

This research aims to test and verify the validity of the relationship between wise leadership and the management of strategic ignorance in the public sector. This research seeks to answer the following question: Does the senior leadership in the Iraqi Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs rely on the philosophy of wise leadership in managing and leading the institution, dealing with employees, and making decisions? This study seeks to bridge the research gap between wise leadership and managing strategic ignorance, testing it in the Iraqi Public Environment Sector for the first time and explaining how strategic ignorance can be handled by applying the philosophy of wise leadership. The results of this study help to provide managers in the public sector, the ministry, and the study community with the necessary information that contributes to improving their leadership skills and reducing the level of cognitive ignorance among ministry employees. The descriptive analytical approach was adopted and a random sample of senior leaders in the ministry, who held the rank of general manager, department director, division official, and unit official, was chosen. The research sample consisted of 125 managers. The questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting data and the statistical analysis programme SPSS V.26 was relied upon to analyse data and test the validity of hypotheses. The research found that there is an impact and correlation between wise leadership and Strategic Ignorance Management for Government Institutions. In contrast, the research did not discover a relationship for the variable of understanding the essence in the management of strategic ignorance, as the senior leadership in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs relies on the philosophy of wise leadership in managing strategic ignorance in the ministry.