Degree of the application Governance Principles in private colleges in Riyadh "Obstacles and means of development"

• Main Author: Fatima Moqbel Salafiq Al Shammari
• Format: Article
• Language: Arabic
• Published: King Saud University 2018-09-01
• Series: Journal of Educational Sciences
• Subjects: Teaching Staff; Decision making; Governance Obstacles; Governance Developing
• Online Access: https://jes.ksu.edu.sa/sites/jes.ksu.edu.sa/files/030-03-03_0.pdf

This study aims to identify the degree of the application of governance principles in private colleges in Riyadh from the viewpoint of their leadership and faculty members. And identifying the obstacles of applying these principles and the suggestions to apply and develop them as well as the the statistical differences according to the study developments. The study used the analytic descriptive approach. The subjects of the study are all the six private colleges in Riyadh with 180 leader and member. Moreover, the researcher conducted a questionnaire containing the initial data and three axes. The results indicated that the degree of applying the governance principles was intermediate. However, the most important obstacles were the unclear systems and policies of the colleges, the weakness of applying these policies by the employees. The results also showed that there are differences between the average of responses for the Study sample due to gende variable in favour of males with ten years experience or more. The study recommended involving the colleges' staffs and the local society in the process of decision making.