Abstract
This study aimed to identify the degree of administrative empowerment as well as the degree of the innovative behavior among the head/ coordinators of the academic department at the Science and Art Faculty in Sharurah from the faculty members' perspective during the academic Year 1434- 1435 H. It points out if there is correlation between the administrative empowerment and the innovative behavior according to the study variables: gender, major, teaching experience, and academic rank to achieve the objectives of the study. Two questionnaires were designed to collect data, the first is used to measure the degree of the administrative empowerment among the head/ coordinators of the academic department at the Science and Art Faculty, while the second is used to measure the degree of the innovative behavior among the academic coordinators at the Faculty of Science and Art .The study sample involves (120) male faculty members and (44) female faculty members who were selected randomly from different human and scientific departments at the Faculty of Science and Arts in Sharurah. To answer the questions of the study, the two researchers develop the first questionnaire, which is divided into two parts. The first part is concerned with the personal data, while the second part relates to the administrative empowerment, which contains (45), items distributed on four domains: the administrative work, authority of delegation, self-motivation, communications and human relations. Meanwhile the second questionnaire is, developed by researchers, having (47) items distributed on five domains: mental characteristics, emotional characteristics, innovation and originality, teamwork and simulation The study shows that head/ coordinators of the academic department at the Faculty of Science and Arts have a medium degree of administrative empowerment and a medium degree of innovative behavior alike. It also indicates that there is a positive correlation, which has statistical significance between the degree of administrative empowerment among the head/ coordinators of the academic department and their innovative behavior. At the light of this study, the two researchers recommended holding training courses related to the administrative operations among academic coordinators based on efficiency and opportunity equality. The study also recommends selecting the academic Heads / coordinators from those who have innovative leaders and believe in innovation and tendency to take risks.
Highlights
Human resources are considered the most important asset of the organization, which should be exploited efficiently
- To identify whether there is a correlation between administrative empowerment and innovative behavior at Faculty sections, which are attributed to gender, major, teaching experience and academic rank, from faculty members’ perspective at the Faculty of Science and Arts in Sharurah- Najran University
The results show that the means of the administrative empowerment of the head / coordinator department in the Faculty of Science and Arts in Sharurah - Najran University are between
Summary
Human resources are considered the most important asset of the organization, which should be exploited efficiently. Empowerment is viewed as one of the modern methods for the management of human resources to exploit the potential capabilities of leadership and self-motivation and the ability of innovation and innovation, and to achieve the objectives of the organization efficiently and effectively. Ibrahim & others (2008: 13) point out that the subject of administrative empowerment is considered as one of the modern subjects, and interest to many researchers in order to establish the principle of innovation at work among workers in the field of management, and the cry that echoes recently in the field of management thought, which cares for the. Ali (2007) assures that the empowerments of workers takes several phases and achieved in several ways including authority of delegation, motivating employees, designing functions in a way to enable workers to employ their innovation, and were linked to the element of mutual trust between superiors and subordinates
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