This research seeks to specify the mediator role for leaders' strategic thinking skills in the relation between the empowerment leadership and job involvement. In order to achieve this the empowerment leadership's dimensions has been adopted ( ideal, participation in decision-making, training, media, showing interest and interact with the team ) based on ( Arnold and Drasgow, 2000 ) the leader's strategic thinking skills adopted on ( cogitation, systemic thinking and paraphrasing ) based on ( Pisapia and etal,2001) while adopting on the job involvement taking as mono- dimensional based on ( Sjoberg and Sverke,2000 ). Imam Husain Medical City has been chosen as a research field through a questionnaire form covered (239) member of medical and nursing staff. Analysis assertive factor has been used (structure equation's modeling), some descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, simple regression analysis and path analysis to specify direct and indirect effect. It was reached a set of conclusions, the most important that the strategic thinking variable increase the whole effect for the empowerment leadership variable on the job involvement at the level of healthy environment of Imam Husain Medical City in Karbala. The research has concluded with a number of appropriate recommendations.
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