Vol: 15, Issue: 3 2025

Page: 151-171

Change Leaders' Skills as an Approach to Enhancing Job Enrichment: An Exploratory Study of a Selected Group of Managers at the Northern Technical University

Hanan Ahmed Sheekhoo

Received Date: 2025-06-29

Accepted Date: 2025-09-04

Published Date: 2025-09-10

http://doi.org/10.37648/ijtbm.v15i03.011

The present study aims to examine the role of change leaders’ skills and their impact on enhancing job enrichment. Within its conceptual framework, the research addresses the topic of change leaders as an explanatory variable, in addition to exploring job enrichment as a responsive variable. Accordingly, the research problem centers on how change leaders contribute to promoting job enrichment within the studied organization, and which leadership skills have the most significant influence in fostering such enrichment. On this basis, the role of “change leaders” emerges as a vital tool in restructuring the work environment and motivating individuals. To achieve these objectives, a questionnaire was employed as the primary tool for collecting data on the current status of the study variables. The collected data were analyzed using statistical tools to accomplish the research objectives and test its hypotheses, relying on the statistical program (SPSS V.26), The study, based on the findings of its practical component, reached several conclusions, the most important of which is that the results indicated a positive impact of change leaders’ skills on enhancing job enrichment. Among the change leadership skills, communication skills demonstrated the highest influence on job enrichment, followed by decision-making skills, and then the skills related to building a future vision. Accordingly, a set of recommendations was presented to the organizations under study.

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