The extent to which officials in sports activities at Al-Nahrain University practice self-management and administrative creativity

مدى ممارسة مسؤولي الأنشطة الرياضية بجامعة النهرين لإدارة الذات والإبداع الإداري

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the extent of the practice of sports activities officials (for self-management, administrative creativity), and the relationship between self-management and administrative creativity in managing the work of activities officials for sports activities within the university. The researchers used the descriptive approach in the survey method for its suitability to the nature of the study. The research sample consisted of (22) officials  for Sports activities at Nahrain University, and researchers also used the questionnaire as a tool to collect data, and among the results were that sports officials practice self-management relatively well through the axes of planning, time management, self-confidence, balance and communication, as well as they practice administrative creativity with a relatively good degree in their management of their work through the axes of originality, flexibility, risk, and fluency, as there is a positive correlation between the degree of self-management practice and administrative creativity, which indicates the existence of a comparative complementary relationship between them. The researchers recommended  the necessity of providing officials of sports activities at Nahrain University with what is new in the field of self-management by holding courses and seminars in which sports officials participate in the purpose of developing sporting activity in all its aspects at the university because of its positive impact on administrative creativity due to the correlative relationship between them, and the emphasis on the management of the student activities department at the university to set future goals when preparing the annual curriculum for sports activities and participating in university sports tournaments.