An Analytical Study on Requirements to Achieve Organizational Maturity in Technical Industrial Secondary Schools in Egypt

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Department of Comparative Education and Educational Administration Faculty of Education - Helwan University - Arab Republic of Egypt

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Institutional maturity is: the process in which the internal capabilities of the Industrial Technical High School are integrated, and in which the activities, processes and institutional practices are compatible and complementary with each other, and with its policies, vision and objectives, with the aim of achieving a framework of continuous improvement in these schools.
Therefore; The current research aims to reach the requirements for achieving institutional maturity in technical industrial secondary schools in Egypt; As these schools are primarily responsible for preparing the technical category in the fields of industry, and developing the technical talents of the students, which are required to improve and develop the economy and industry sector, and then in the development of the state.
The research followed: Descriptive approach and identified some requirements for institutional maturity, including: Legislative requirements, which include: activation of regulations to establish cooperation between technical secondary industrial schools, business, economy and industry. Human requirements, including: Effective leadership to develop work areas within the school, to develop school staff, and to develop their skills and abilities to achieve institutional maturity within the school.
Organizational requirements include: The operationalization of technology, the optimization of in-school material resources, and the development and institutionalization of in-school processes and practices; To achieve institutional maturity in the technical industrial secondary school and to develop an organizational culture that includes: Full empowerment of the working population, enhancement of incentives, activation of communication among members of the school community and building of knowledge within the school; To create a repository of successful best practices within the school.
For corrective requirements, these include: the use of quantitative measurement methods to measure and analyse the results of improved school performance; and tracking the satisfaction of employers, industrialists and economists with the outputs of the technical and industrial secondary schools in Egypt.

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