The impact of social life in leading rehabilitation decision making, a case of Bahrain (a descriptive analytical study)

Leadership and decision making is becoming more popular nowadays, with complex environments and new markets and rapid changes. Some elements of social aspects may play a role and influence decision making. Although there may be some influences, that may shape and influence the leaders’ decision making process such aseducational opportunities,existence of parents during the leader’s childhood, influence offriends and self development. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between such social elements and the leader’s rehabilitation decision making in Bahrain with a sample of 51 leaders, influential people and decision makers in various sectors in Bahrain. The study revealed no significant differencesinall the factors except for self development where it revealed that it does play a role in the leadership rehabilitation decision making.This is attributedto the leader’spersonality and self achievementsinfluence in their field.