Monthly Archives: August 2023

The role of Strategic Management operations on Empowering Employees

  • Vian hussain baker
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  • دور عمليات الادارة الاستراتيجية في تمكين العاملين
  • The current study aimed to analyze the impact of strategic management in the General Directorate of Electricity in Erbil Province on employee empowerment, including its dimensions (delegation of authority, participation in decision-making, psychological empowerment, work environment, and participation in teams). The study addressed a specific problem within its general framework, which raised questions about the relationship, impact, and variation between two main variables: the independent variable (strategic management) and the dependent variable (empowerment). To achieve this purpose, a theoretical framework was designed, including five main hypotheses (1. Testing the relationship hypothesis, 2. Analyzing the impact between study variables, 3. Testing the variation hypothesis, 4. Testing the differences hypothesis). To ensure the validity of these hypotheses, multiple tests were conducted, and a questionnaire was used as a data collection tool in the study. The study adopted a descriptive-analytical approach, describing the main and sub-variables and analyzing the relationships and impact between the variables.The study population comprised the General Directorate of Electricity in Erbil city, including nine directorates and their affiliated departments, with a total of 198 electrical engineers. A total of 150 questionnaires were distributed to the research participants, and 131 valid questionnaires were collected for analysis. The hypotheses were tested using various statistical analyses through the SPSS software version 22.

    The study resulted in several key findings, including the discovery of significant positive relationships between the impact of strategic management and employee empowerment at both the overall and partial levels. This confirms the utility of strategic management in the researched directorates and its contribution to employee empowerment. The study also revealed a positive impact of strategic management on empowerment, supported by significant indicators at the overall level. Furthermore, the regression results indicated that each dimension of empowerment (delegation of authority, participation in decision-making, psychological empowerment, work environment, and participation in teams) contributed to this impact.

    Based on the findings, the study proposes several important recommendations, including the need to enhance and activate the role of employees and involve them in all directorate activities, utilizing their abilities for the directorate's benefit, and leveraging their accumulated experiences in building future strategies and setting strategic goals.

    Keywords: Strategic management, Empowerment, General Directorate of Electricity in Erbil.

  • Shaqlawa Technical College
  • Information technology
  • Business Administration

The role of agricultural workers performance in the effectiveness of administrative decisions

  • Alendy Abdulahad Mansor
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  • رسالة ماجستير الندي عبدالاحد منصور
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    Purpose: The study aims to analyze the role of agricultural workers’ performance with its dimensions (work quality, innovation and creativity, job satisfaction, and employee efficiency) in the effectiveness of administrative decisions with its dimensions (time and speed of administrative decisions, ease implementation of administrative decisions, quality of administrative decisions and acceptance of administrative decisions).

    Methodology: the methodology adopted by the study is to identify the study’s problem by examining several questions and concentrating on the nature of the relationship, impact, and variance between the performance of agricultural workers and the effectiveness of administrative decisions. Based on that, a hypothetical scheme was designed for the study, and six main hypotheses emerged from it to verify the validity of the hypotheses; it was subjected to a set of statistical tests.

    Method: the study followed the descriptive-analytical method, as the study’s variables and dimensions were described, and the study population was represented by the General Directorate of Agriculture in Erbil and its affiliated departments, it included (235) agricultural engineers and (153) questionnaires were distributed to the respondents, and (144) forms valid for analysis were obtained, and the relationship, impact, and variance by applying the statistical methods through SPSS version 24.

    Findings: the study reached several conclusions, most notably the presence of good levels of agricultural workers’ performance, and there is also the existence of the effectiveness of administrative decisions in the

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    General Directorate of Agriculture and its affiliated departments in Erbil governorate. The results indicate correlations and influences between the agricultural workers’ performance and the effectiveness of administrative decisions at the macro and micro levels. The results showed the variance of the General Directorate of Agriculture and its affiliated departments in the effectiveness of administrative decisions according to the different levels of focus on the dimensions of the agricultural workers’ performance. Finally, the study also showed no significant variances, meaning that they are statistically significant for the General Directorate of Agriculture regarding the study variables, depending on their different personal characteristics.

    Recommendations: the researcher recommended retaining good levels of agricultural workers’ performance because an increase in agricultural workers’ performance can translate into an increase in farmers’ income. Also, the need to maintain the effectiveness of administrative decisions and their dimensions by supporting and enhancing interaction with beneficiaries and providing them with as much information as possible. Continuing to pay attention to agricultural engineers with high skills and accumulated experience and to develop plans and programs to activate the role of agricultural engineers and cadres in a way that makes them more effective. The need to invest in the strong relationship between agricultural workers’ performance and the effectiveness of administrative decisions at the macro and micro levels, direct this relationship towards the best agricultural service and present some recommendations regarding future studies.

    Keywords: workers’ performance, effectiveness of administrative decisions, General Directorate of Agriculture in Erbil.

  • Shaqlawa Technical College
  • Tourism Foundation Administration
  • Business Administration

The University Rector receives a delegation from Imam Al-Aedham University

On Sunday, the 20th of August, 2023, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, received a delegation from Imam Al-Aedham University.

In a meeting where the Vice Rectors for the Administrative, the Scientific Affairs and Higher Education, and the Student Affairs were present, the Rector welcomed the delegation and briefed them about our university history. In return, the guest delegation expressed their pleasure to visit the Erbil Polytechnic University.

In their meeting session, both parties discussed the development of universities by benefiting from each other’s experience and both sides agreed to establish scientific relations. In this regard, the Rector stressed upon the collaboration of the two universities in various fields, especially research and scientific conferences.

  Another topic of the meeting was the admission of students to universities and the opening of higher education study, master’s and doctoral degrees was another aspect of the discussions. In another part of the meeting, both sides considered the internationalization of universities as an important and necessary step to improve the scientific level of teachers and students.

The Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University participated in the meeting of Iraqi Polytechnic Universities

Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Erbil Polytechnic University participated in the roundtable meeting of polytechnic universities in Iraq, which was hosted by the Middle Technical University and held in Erbil city.

In a meeting where the Minister Deputy of the Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq, Dr. Haider Abd Zahd, the Chairman of the Committee of the Education, Technical and Vocational Training Reform Project in Iraq, Dr. Hamid Khalaf Ahmed and the consultant of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Iraq Mr. Ala Abed Hassan, the Rectors of Iraqi and Kurdistan Polytechnic Universities, and the Vice Rector of Erbil Polytechnic University for Scientific Affairs and Higher Education were present, they discussed the steps taken to promote technical and vocational education in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.

After presenting the speeches, the agenda of the meeting was presented through nine different topics discussing the independence of admission in polytechnic universities, especially in departments that follow the Bologna system, as well as the proposals and recommendations of the previous meeting technical education in Iraq and its transformation into the Office of Technical Education in the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, steps to implement the Bologna system and obstacles to its implementation, investment projects and discussing the infrastructure construction for newly established universities. Working on changing the ownership of the land of the Ministry of Finance and Economy to polytechnic universities was also discussed along with several other current issues.