Enhancing Community Service through Strategic Leadership: A Case Study of Special Units
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https://doi.org/10.56830/IJGMBS12202304Keywords:
Leadership, Strategic Leadership, Special Units, University of Minya.Abstract
The special units are considered to be a house of expertise for the service of the community and work to achieve the goals and function of the university in serving the community and the new mission of the university in the leadership aspect along with the teaching and scientific research functions. These units have shown a positive role in solving many economic and social problems, the lack of resources and financial allocations to advance the scientific and research aspect, contributes to the close service of the community. The present study therefore aimed to identify strategic leadership as an input for the development of the units of a specific nature of Minya University and used the descriptive curriculum, which reached several conclusions. The degree of research sample members of the teaching and administrative staff (n. 147) is very important for the overall strategy for the six dimensions (444), for the total for the reduction of the average. 88.70%), and the results of the study showed that the leadership dimension came in first place with an average of 4.56% and 91.22%, while the external environment was last with an average of 4.21% and 84.22%. At the end of the study, the research presented a proposed concept of applying strategic leadership as an input to the development of units of a special character for the University of Minya.
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