English abstract
This study aimed at investigating the degree of department directors' employment in the headquarters of the Ministry of Education for digital applications in the administrative processes and ways of their development. To achieve the study objectives, the descriptive method was used, as the researcher developed a questionnaire consisted of (52) items distributed to six main dimensions, namely, (organization, planning, supervision, and follow-up, contact and communication, evaluation). After reviewing the validity and reliability, the questionnaire was applied to the study sample which consisted of (300) of the Ministry employees. To answer the study questions, the arithmetic means, and standards deviations have been concluded, as well as using the T-test and the one-way analysis of variance. One of the most remarkable results of the study was that the degree of department directors' employment in the headquarters of the Ministry of Education for digital applications in the administrative processes from the employees' perspective, for the study dimensions, namely (organization, planning, supervision, and follow-up, contact and communication, evaluation) was high, while the employment level for evaluation was moderate, and the employment level for the study total score was high. Besides, the degree of agreement of the employees of the study sample on the ways of development of using the digital application in the administrative processes with the department directors was very high as well. The study also showed no statistically significant differences for the alpha level (α < 0.05) of the degree of department directors' employment in the headquarters of the ministry of education for digital applications in the administrative processes and ways of their development that could be attributed to the variables of gender, number of digital application courses, academic qualification, and years of experience. In light of this study results, several recommendations have been provided; the most important of which were: conducting regular workshops for the department directors in the headquarters of the Ministry of Education to update and develop their knowledge, experience, and skills of the digital applications to keep up with the updates of this field, and allocating the proper budget for the departments to enable them to provide the tools and requirements related needed for the high-quality use of digital applications according to the updated versions of the electronic software.
