Reengineering the Leadership Competencies of the Leaders at the Jordanian Ministry of Education According to the Contemporary Leadership Trends

Amira Yousef Thaher Mustafa

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Reengineering the Leadership Competencies of the Leaders at the Jordanian Ministry of Education According to the Contemporary Leadership Trends

Amira Yousef Thaher Mustafa

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Received: 31 October 2022 Accepted: 28 November 2022 Published: 18 May 2023

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This study aimed to present a restructuring of the competencies of educational leaders in the Jordanian Ministry of Education based on contemporary leadership trends. The study population consisted of all leaders, officials, administrators, and heads of departments at the Ministry of Education center who are in charge of their work during the year 2020/2022. To achieve the goal of the study, the researcher used the developmental survey methodology, and a questionnaire consisting of (51) items was developed distributed over (5) domains whose validity and reliability were confirmed. Then, it was distributed among the (260) members of the study, including all leaders, officials, administrators, and heads of departments in the Jordanian Ministry of Education. The results of the study showed: The reality of the availability of engineering competencies among the educational leaders in the Jordanian Ministry of Education was average from their point of view, with statistically significant differences, when comparing the reality with the upper limit of averages (5). Based on these results, a restructuring of the competencies of educational leaders in the Jordanian Ministry of Education was presented based on contemporary leadership trends. The researcher recommended several recommendations, including: training qualified educational leaders to bring about innovative developmental changes in the ministry and its institutions, and enabling them to direct the charisma of leadership to raise motivation towards standard practices among human cadres. She recommended that the Ministry of Education adopt the restructuring of leadership competencies to achieve change and development of distinguished educational learning that is capable of making a difference and achieving added value. And the adoption of engineering to enable educational leaders to achieve creativity, innovation and comprehensive institutional change in their positions.

Published in	International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijecs.20230803.12
Page(s)	86-97
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Competencies, Engineering Competencies, Educational Leaders, Ministry of Education

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Ministry of Education, Amman, Jordan

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