Author name:
عمار عبد مزيعل الظاهري
Supervisor name:
سراب فاضل مخيبر العميري
Abstract:
يعد القسم العلمي الوحدة الاساسية للجامعة ومعظم القرارات تتخذ من خلاله فضلا عن كونه الجهة المناط بها تنفيذ القرارات الصادرة من الجامعة، وموقع رؤساء الاقسام يمثل مفتاح نجاح تلك الاقسام وانطلاقها نحو تحقيق اهدافها، اذ ان كفاءة اداء القسم العلمي تتاثر كثيرا ب | The "scientific section the basic unit of the University of Most decisions are made through the site department heads represents the success of those sections and disperse the key towards achieving their goals, and that the strength and success of the sections in the performance of its duties the success of the university and continuity in survival shows" (Harab : 1998.51). However, some of the operating and administrative functional centers do not have to have administrative or even the willingness of mental and psychological ability to understand non - specialists and do not have the necessary competence, so the development of policies that are trying to eliminate this phenomenon and the resulting disadvantages. "Forums heads are academics before everything, not administrators, but they exercise the functions of the presidency of the section without having the necessary expertise and without access to any kind of pre - training and this means ambiguity of roles they have absence of advance preparation for the Head of Department to exercise its role creates a problem in itself." (Munir : 1999.56 - 57). "The nature of interlocking and complex role of Chairman of the Scientific Section and its administrative and academic tasks, especially in the absence of job descriptions and training programs to prepare who will take the job, may give rise to perceptions of non - specific about the powers and duties assigned to, which could be hampered by the performance of some of its functions and implement some of the duties entrusted to him, and so in the belief that they fall outside the framework of the powers and duties assigned to the President of the section "(age : 1998.256). So hold many conferences that shows the importance of developing the performance of educational leaders, as in the first Scientific Conference of the Colleges of Education and Human Sciences at the University of Anbar in 2011, and highlighted what is in it that there is weakness in the level of administrative performance of most of the educational leaders in Iraqi universities and the need to improve the performance of those leaders. (First Scientific Conference of Colleges of Education : University of Anbar 0.2011). Fifth Scientific Conference and discussed at the University of Maysan, 2012, which was held under the slogan (the role of universities in the construction and promotion) discussed the development of educational systems departments and it is different from other community systems departments because the entrance to the heterogeneous and difficult to adjust and control due to the different intellectual, cultural and social levels, which requires the presence of administrative leadership effective. (Fifth Scientific Conference : Maysan University, 2012). In addition to the above has the researcher conducted a number of meetings and interviews with a number of administrative leaders in Wasit University and their assistants and heads of academic departments, and through discussions it became clear that there are problems hindering the administrative performance of the development of the Heads of Departments, including the discrepancy in the decisions and instructions of the higher authorities, a what does not help to take the right decisions, poor rehabilitation of educational leadership and not giving in to the criteria for selecting the leadership, weak employment of modern information and communication technology in administrative work, the lack of secretarial effective offices in the scientific section, lack of equal validity with placed on the head of the department responsible. Based on what was presented conferences and problems and weaknesses, and studies of the recommendations made, as well as the interview conducted by researcher The problem with current research in the administrative performance development, and as the administrative work does not evolve, but the evolution of the existing performance of the exercise, change roles so is a set of ideas and routers work and the introduction of updates and make changes designed to improve the performance of heads of academic departments at the University of Wasit mode. And which will reflect positively on the administrative functioning of the first academic work and secondly in teaching, scientific research and community service. The importance of this study is being dealt with very topic in importance, namely the administrative performance development of the heads of academic departments at the University of Wasit in light of the administrative functions based on the areas of (planning, organization, guidance, administrative communication, monitoring and evaluation). Thus is the positioning of the new study and research topics from the university's success is linked to the successful divisions, and effective leadership for scientific department is always seeking to improve its performance in accordance with contemporary management trends. Thus, the results of this study, the heads of academic departments may help in Wasit University on the development of administrative performance during the practice of administrative work and thus improve and develop the university administration at the University of Wasit.In light of the above it can highlight the importance of current research on the following points : 1. The importance of the current research comes in trying to administrative performance of the Heads of Departments to develop in Wasit University in light of the administrative functions of the University, especially if Wasit University is one of the young university, it needs to reform processes and continuous improvement.2. The importance of the role of the Chairman of the Scientific Section, which is the decisive factor in achieving the goals of the department and the college and then university, which should have a department head clear vision of the role.3. The results of the study may help in the development of workshops especially to improve and develop the administrative performance of the Heads of Departments at the University of Wasit action programs, as well as the results may also contribute to the opening of a new field for researchers to conduct research aimed at the administrative performance of the department heads to develop using modern methods in the Management. To achieve the aim of the research scholar at the descriptive and analytical approach has been adopted, and employed a questionnaire which included five areas (planning, organization, direction, management and communication, and monitoring and evaluation), which included (60) paragraph, after the presentation to a group of experts in accordance with methodology Delphi method, and used statistical methods (the proportion of the agreement, and the weighted average, the weight percentile). And clear some of the paragraphs above areas as follows : The adoption of e - mail provides an enabling environment through the provision of data and information as the introduction of information and communication technologies contribute to change the administrative work style and effectiveness and performance of the mechanism of action which develops adoption of electronic correspondence deliver the performance and the speed of a good investment of time.In light of the search results, the researcher suggested some of the conclusions, including : 1. Must rely on a clear methodology based on the foundations of scientific research when drafting the development plans of the Department of Scientific which can be head of the department of development of plans for operations development and proper investment of human and material resources, and being able to solve the immediate problems and prepare for the problems of a possible occurrence.2. Recognize that the development process of administrative performance reflected the basic educational functions of the scientific section, namely, teaching, scientific research and community service.3. The process requires the development of performance based on the philosophy of the availability of training development to bridge the gap between what is realistic object and what we aspire to be, and this calls for the training of deans, department heads and faculty and staff, including introduces or invents or discovers.One of the main recommendations of the researcher : 1. The establishment of scientific conferences and seminars about the ongoing development of performance management mechanisms and administrative leaderships allowing development in educational institutions culture.2. Adopting the principle of efficiency in the selection of administrative leaders (heads of departments) and the exchange of Progressive, which is reflected positively on the performance of the scientific section level.3. that the development is going on and one of the core values of the culture of scientific section process, and that is reflected on the behavior and method acting by each member of the faculty, as is standard for evaluating their performance.4. For department heads on research and developments in the field of management and methods, because knowledge is an essential source for the development of their performance, and the performance of the work in the right way the first time.It is the researcher's proposals : 1. Conduct a study on the reality of the creative performance of heads of science departments in some Iraqi universities.2. Administrative performance for educational leaders to develop using modern entrances in management input organizational learning.3. Conduct a study on the educational or academic with the heads of academic departments at the University of Wasit role
