القيادة التنموية لدى رؤساء الأقسام الأكاديمية : دراسة حالة بجامعة الفيوم
The problem of this study results from the presence of some aspects of malfunction in the performance of the academic leaders at Fayoum University. Of such are the dominance of centralism, and weak participation of employees in leadership, and lack of national and international cooperation between the faculties of university and their counterparts, as well as the incompetence in making the best use of technology, and also the absence of clear politics for the development of human resources of university. This study aimed at studying a case from Fayoum University through extrapolation of the historical, social and economic background of the university and its academic departments and identifying the status quo of developmental leadership of the heads of academic departments according to the viewpoints of the teaching staff. This is carried out with the objective of identifying a mechanism proposed for the achievement of their developmental practices. The study has been applied to a sample of teaching staff at the Faculty of Agriculture, and the Faculty of Social Work, and the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Arabic Language Studies (Dar Al-Olum), at Fayoum University. Furthermore, the study concluded that the developmental practices of heads of the academic department at Fayoum University. Their practices were based on the following order: administrative measures, administrative effectiveness, method of management, and nature of communication. Moreover, this study has demonstrates there are differences of statistical significance between the heads of the academic department at Fayoum University, according to the scientific section variable. Additionally, there are differences of statistical significance between the subjects pertaining practices related to method of management, administrative measures, administrative effectiveness, and nature of communication. (Published abstract)