Keywords
Creative thinking
University Leaders
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Abstract
The current study seeks to investigate the factual status of administrative flexibility as a tool to encourage creative leadership by administrating it to the university leaders at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. The study utilized the descriptive analytical approach as well as a field study method using the questionnaire as a major instrument for data collection. The study population consists of all university leaders at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University with (298) participants. The findings of the study revealed that the administrative flexibility dimensions are available to a high degree, where the general mean of administrative flexibility dimensions reached (3.91) out of (5), the availability of creative leadership dimensions is high, where the general mean of creative leadership dimensions reached (3.57) out of (5). Moreover, there is a positive correlation between administrative flexibility and creative leadership, where the Pearson correlation coefficient of the total degree between administrative flexibility and creative leadership reached (0.898), and there is a statistically significant value at the (0.000) level.
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