شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the administrative empowerment of academic leaders and its relation to competitive advantage from faculty staff members' point of view at the Middle East University, taking in consideration the gender deference and collage the academic degree and the years of experience. To achieve the study goals, the descripted and connected methods have been used to collect information and it is made of two categories, the first one is the administrative empowerment divided to 32 paragraph including: delegation of authority, self-motivation, group work, and personality development; the second category the competitive advantage distributed on 30 paragraphs including: creativity, flexibility, work performance, quality and cost; it was confirmed of their validity and reliability, the study sample was consists from 92 Faculty members, and the study showed this: The level of administrative empowerment and competitive advantage in the university was moderate. And There are statistically significant differences in the degree of practice of academic leaders for administrative empowerment from the point of view of faculty members due to the gender variables, the number of years of experience in favor of males, 10 years and above, and there is no differences of statistically significant attributed to the variables of the college and the academic level. And There are statistically significant differences in the degree of practice of the academic leaders of the competitive advantage from the point of view of the faculty members due to the gender variables, the college for the benefit of the male class, the scientific colleges, and there is no of differences of statistical significance attributed to the academic level variables and the number of years of experience. (Author's abstract)