Measuring Administrative Errors among the Heads of Administrative Units in the College of Education for Humanities

Abstract

The problem of the current research is determined by the weak performance of some new heads of administrative units in the College of Education for Human Sciences \ Diyala University who, due to the lack of administrative experience, made many administrative mistakes that negatively affected the conduct of the administrative process, which may bring problems that harm the institution in general and the employees in particular.

    Moreover, the importance of the research also appears in its focus on the administrative errors of the new heads of administrative units during the performance of their administrative work, which may cause great damage to the institution in general and the employees in particular. As for the research sample, the researcher focused on the descriptive approach as a fixed methodology for research, and the sample chosen by the researcher was (50) male and female employees from the College of Education for Humanities\ University of Diyala, and it was chosen randomly. To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher built a scale for administrative errors, and the psychometric characteristics of the scale were extracted.

    After analyzing the data and processing it statistically, the results of the research indicated that there was a weakness in the performance of some of them, as some errors were spread related to the method of writing official books, in addition to the weakness of dealing with the employees.

   After conducting the analysis, the researcher came up with a set of recommendations and suggestions that help in solving administrative problems and trying to reduce the mistakes that officials make while performing their administrative works.