Vol: 11, Issue: 3 2021

Page: 263-288

The Role of Ethical Leadership in Enhancing Social Capital Field Research in The Branches of The Rafidain Bank in Dhi Qar Governorate

Saif Taleb Kudher, Dr. Hussam Ali Mhaibes

The current research aims to draw attention to the importance and necessity of ethical leadership and contribute to stimulating the ethical style of leadership and promoting and developing social capital, as well as diagnosing the extent of the bank’s interest in research variables and its dimensions, to come up with a set of recommendations that contribute to improving its practice and adoption of these variables, and based on the importance and necessity of the variables for the bank. on the one hand, and society on the other. The research adopted the descriptive analytical approach in completing its chapters and investigations and was applied in the branches of Rafidain Bank in Dhi Qar Governorate. The research sample included (90) individuals from the middle administrative leaders in the bank, and the main research tool (the questionnaire) was distributed to them to survey opinions about the variables in addition to the personal interviews that they conducted The researcher with a number of bank leaders, and all the questionnaires were valid for analysis, numbering (90), and the statistical analysis showed a number of results, the most prominent of which is the presence of a statistically significant effect of ethical leadership on social capital. The research also included a number of recommendations that Rafidain Bank should pay attention to social capital. By employing ethical leadership practices in general, moral guidance and integrity, as well as adopting moral guidance in improving the structural dimension, directing integrity to raise the level of the relational dimension, and adopting integrity and moral guidance in improving the cognitive dimension.