Leadership Skills and their Relationship to Job Performance among Faculty Members at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences / Thi Qar University

Abstract

Leadership skills are among the factors that greatly affect the success of educational institutions and the achievement of their goals. Effective leadership contributes to directing individuals towards achieving optimal performance and motivating them towards achieving performance and exerting their utmost efforts in the academic environment. Educational leaders play a pivotal role in developing competencies and improving job performance among faculty members and greatly affect the job performance of faculty members.

The research problem lies in the lack of clarity of how different leadership styles affect job performance in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. There are many leadership styles, but not all of them achieve the desired results, which requires a careful study to find out what achieves a balance between guidance and support and how leaders can enhance the overall performance of the institution they lead.

The objectives of the research are to build a scale of leadership skills and a scale of job performance among faculty members in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences / University of Thi Qar and to identify them and find the relationship between them.

The study used the "descriptive approach with the survey method to suit" the nature of the study, as the research community was represented by faculty members in the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences / University of Thi Qar. The sample community reached (74) teachers, and the sample of construction and application included (50). The researcher prepared the leadership skills scale and the job performance scale. After extracting the scientific foundations and applying the appropriate statistical methods, the discriminating power between individuals and the internal consistency coefficient as well as the Cronbach's alpha coefficient, the results were:

1. The leadership skills scale and the job performance scale that the researcher standardized and fulfilled their scientific conditions are capable of measuring the trait for which they were developed.


2. The professors of the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Thi Qar possess a high percentage of leadership skills and job performance.


3. There is a significant correlation between leadership skills and job performance among professors of the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the University of Thi Qar.