Category Archives: Master Thesis

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.

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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.

E-healthcare is a digital version of a patient’s medical history, which
includes information about their medical conditions, treatments, and
medications. E-healthcare is typically used by healthcare providers to improve
the quality of patient care. E-healthcare systems are essential tools that contain
sensitive patient information and are subject to strict privacy and security
regulations. Since the rise of the cloud computing many healthcare providers
are now storing their E-healthcare data on cloud-based systems. Transferring
E-healthcare data to the cloud computing can introduce a variety of security
challenges that must be carefully considered and managed. One of the main
security concerns when moving E-healthcare data to the cloud computing is the
risk of unauthorized access to patient information. The access control is a
critical component of E-healthcare systems, and ensuring secure and
appropriate access to patient data is essential for protecting security. Also,
privacy is maintained for the integrity of the healthcare system by encrypting
data when storing it in the cloud. The access control allows only authorized
users to access E-health data. In healthcare, timely access to patient data is
critical for effective care delivery. Time delays in accessing data can lead to
serious consequences for patient care that including delayed diagnosis and
inappropriate treatment. For this reason, the time delay of user access is
decreased using the proposed algorithms.
In this thesis, the Generate Access Key (GAK) algorithm is proposed
based on Message Authentication Code (MAC) and Hashing technique to
produce a Security Secret Key (SSK). The GAK would work by providing
users with a unique SSK that would be used to allow them to access data in the
E-healthcare based cloud system with the minimum of delay. Users are also
given flexible access rights based on their role and rights according to User
Access Rights (UAR) algorithm. In order to protect the privacy of users, the
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data is encrypted using the Database Encryption (DBE) algorithm before being
stored in the database and to read by the users the data in the system must be
decrypted based on the Database Decryption (DBD) algorithm. The simulation
results of our algorithms show that the delay for authenticating two hundred
users is 440 milliseconds, and the data response time is 150 milliseconds for
200 participants requesting data simultaneously. The computational cost was
compared with other related works and found that in our algorithm, 0.035
milliseconds were needed for all the registration, login, and authentication
stages.

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Purpose: This study aims to analyze the relation and impact of the training strategy represented by its dimensions (training process steps, the diversity of training programs, the support and commitment of the senior management to the training strategy, the use of modern technology) with the dimensions of developing leadership competencies represented by (knowledge, skills, behavior).

Methodology: The problem of the study, which raised several questions about the nature of the correlation and influence between the independent variable (training strategy) and the dependent variable (development of leadership competencies). The hypotheses were subjected to multiple tests, and the study used a questionnaire as a means of obtaining data.

Method: The study followed the analytical descriptive analyses, as main and sub-variables were described, as well as to analyze the relationships and influence between the variables.it describe the population of the study that are (218) scientific head departments of (5) governor universities in Erbil, the study sample represented (140) head departments, those participate and responded questioner reached (136) heads of departments. and statistical tests by computer program (SPSS V.26).

Finding: The results of the statistical analysis indicate that the heads of scientific departments in the public universities in the Erbil governorate are well interested in the training strategy, plans and various long-term programs for the development of competencies and personal skills. The results also show that there is a strong direct relationship between the two variables and the development of leadership competencies that is directly affected by any change that Led in the independent variable training strategy in the universities surveyed

Recommendations: This study recommended assigning and encouraging mature experience age groups and young people, to exchange experiences and knowledge among themselves in order to develop leadership competencies. And reconsider assigning females to administrative tasks, due to the strong demand by females to assume administrative positions on the one hand, and the appropriateness of these jobs in the educational sector to the characteristics of females in terms of their ability to deal with and solve problems and their patience, perseverance, and seriousness in work.

Keywords: training strategy, competency development, public universities in Erbil Governorate