Designing a Leadership Model of the Holy Defense Commanders Through Mixed Method

This mixed research is carried out with the aim of designing the leadership model of the commanders of the Holy Defense. Grounded theory method was used in the qualitative part of the research. Statistical population of the research included the commanders of the holy defense era in one of the army units, 18 of whom were selected by purposive sampling method as the sample. The data were collected through in-depth interviews and were analyzed using NVivo-10 software. The statistical population of the quantitative part of the research included the commanders and employees of the same unit whose statistical sample was selected by stratified random sampling method. The data were collected by distribution of 351 copies of a researcher-made questionnaires. The results indicated that the self-sacrifice worldview was a central component of the leadership model of the commanders of the Holy Defense era, which was influenced by causal, intervening and contextual conditions, and caused behavioral strategies such as giving service and providing care to the followers, moral commitment, honesty, emotional and spiritual communication, courage and risk-taking by commanders leading to the realization of consequences such as victory on the battlefield, social cohesion and increased military deterrence. The findings of the structural equations in the quantitative section confirmed the relationships between the components of the designed leadership model.