Administrative leadership and its Relationship to the administrative empowerment of secondary school principals from the perspective of physical education teachers in Najaf Al-Ashraf

Abstract

Administrative leadership is one of the pillars of this development, which adopts innovation, change and development as a method and inevitably mixes them, leading to the development of strategic planning and allowing greater flexibility to transform from monotonous bureaucratic societies into productive and creative societies. it is the quality of administrative leadership that causes development and forms the key basis in the formation and promotion of the quality of work of all departments in educational institutions. In terms of drawing administrative policy, the administrative leader's ability to innovate is reflected in it. This is what many countries of the world have called for: the allocation of infrastructure resources in research and development and the continuous number of administrative leaders seeking change and development. Hence, the importance of the research comes from understanding the meaning of administrative leadership and administrative empowerment, enhancing the contribution of the members of the educational body in secondary schools in Najaf governorate and identifying the relationship between administrative leadership and administrative empowerment from the point of view of physical education teachers. Through the researcher's experience, knowledge and proximity to the departments in secondary schools, in addition to the interviews she conducted with a number of school principals and teachers in this field, she noticed that many educational institutions still lack a clear vision of this concept and how to apply it in their departments and do not realise the benefits reflected on the employees and the institutional climate in them; as well as there are still some administrative leaders who do not believe in the importance of change and benefit from modern scientific development. Hence the problem of research, as they believe that this is a source of danger that threatens their authority and influence, and they stand in the way of Administrative Development and organisational change. To identify the relationship between administrative leadership and administrative empowerment among secondary school principals from the point of view of physical education teachers in Najaf governorate. The researcher used the descriptive approach in the style of associative relationships due to its relevance and the nature of the current study. The research community included female teachers of physical education in secondary schools in Najaf governorate, with (160) schools, and a random sample of (30) schools was selected for administrative empowerment, a simple direct correlation with innovative leadership and contributes significantly to the level of administrative leadership among female secondary school principals in Najaf governorate. The need for the attention of secondary school principals in Najaf governorate to administrative leadership and administrative empowerment. Conducting studies that include the variables of the current study among the headmistresses of other secondary schools in the province of Najaf, including broader samples.