The degree of change management practice and its relation to the level of administrative creativity among the leaders of secondary schools in Al-Makhwah governorate from the teachers' point of view

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of Educational Administration and Planning, Department of Educational Administration and Planning Faculty of Education, Al Baha University

2 Administration and Educational Planning Department of Administration and Educational Planning, College of Education, Al Baha University

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the degree of change management practice and its relation to the level of administrative creativity among the leaders of the secondary schools in Al-Makhwa Governorate from the point of view of the teachers. The researcher used the descriptive the associative approach, the study community shall be from all the secondary school teachers in Al-Makhwah governorate for the academic year 1439 H / 2018, the sample of the study (355) teachers were selected in a random manner, to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of (61) sections divided into two axes. The first axis contains four areas (school vision and mission, creativity and scientific innovation, organizational and administrative change culture, good example) the second axis contains 5 areas (originality, fluency, flexibility, sensitivity to problems, risk), the results showed that the level of change management among high school principals was high, with a total average of (3.47), there were no statistically significant differences between the average teachers' estimates of the degree of leadership of secondary school students in Al-Makhwah governorate to manage the change according to the variable (qualification), in the variable years of service, it was found that there were differences on (school vision and mission, culture of organizational and administrative change, good example, total degree), as for the variable of study specialization, there were statistically significant differences between the average of teachers' estimations and the level of practice of secondary school leaders makhawh governorate to manage change according to the variable (specialization) for the benefit of natural sciences in good example, overall, the level of administrative innovation among secondary school principals in Al-Mahwah Governorate was high, with an average of( 3,83), it was found that there are no statistically significant differences between the average teachers' assessment of the level of innovation among the leaders of the secondary schools in Al-Makhwa governorate according to the variable (the qualification), and in the variable number of years of service it was found that there are differences of statistical significance in: the second area "fluency", and in the third area "flexibility", and in the fourth area "sensitivity to problems" and "total score" were the differences in favor of the number of years of service is greater, In the variable (study specialization), there are statistically significant differences between the average teachers' assessment of the level of creativity among the leaders of the secondary schools in Al-Makhwa governorate in favor of the natural sciences specialization in originality, Flexibility, sensitivity to problems, risk, total score, it was also found that there is a positive correlation relationship statistically significant at (0.01) between all dimensions of change management and its overall degree and between all dimensions of administrative innovation and its overall degree.

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